this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
565 points (99.1% liked)
Funny
12707 readers
1818 users here now
General rules:
- Be kind.
- All posts must make an attempt to be funny.
- Obey the general sh.itjust.works instance rules.
- No politics or political figures. There are plenty of other politics communities to choose from.
- Don't post anything grotesque or potentially illegal. Examples include pornography, gore, animal cruelty, inappropriate jokes involving kids, etc.
Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the mods.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
You missed the point. Saying that calling it "fun" is problematic doesn't imply that you can't have fun, of course you can (I have, a tonne). I assume the above comment called it problematic because they weighed the "fun" of gun owners against 40k dead Americans a year and decided maybe we shouldn't be focusing on the entertainment.
You can absolutely have more gun control and not really inhibit firearm sports or hunting BTW. The USA ought to have a monopoly on Olympic shooting medals if that weren't the case ๐
If they had IDPA or USPSA events they probably would, to be fair. The Olympics only have like four shooting events (coincidentally the ones less popular in America) there's way more shooting sports than that.
Besides, if you look at the wiki's medal table like I just did after you made me curious, it seems to indicate the US has 121 medals (incl all metals) for shooting, and the next highest China has 77, so, I mean, I guess we kinda do anyway?
Across all sports the US has over 3 times china's all time medal totals in both summer and winter games. Not even having double is a pretty significant underperformance.
Maybe we should conclude gun culture makes a nation better at track and field because people get more practice running away ๐
Lmao ok bud, call me when someone catches up. Cute try though.