http://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/26/blue-checked-bbc-reporter-is-shocked-that-its-so-easy-to-buy-a-rifle-and-ammunition-at-your-neighborhood-american-walmart-pic/
BBC journalist Pádraig Belton is stateside at the moment, and earlier today, he apparently found himself — like countless Americans — at a Walmart.
All he wanted was a plug adapter for his UK laptop. Instead, he found rifles and ammo, just sitting there on the shelves, out there for everyone to see and anyone to purchase:
Pádraig Belton (@PadraigBelton) ~ Hi from America. Where Walmart doesn’t have a plug adapter for my UK laptop. But on the other hand, I can buy a rifle and ammunition.
Screenshotted for posterity, because this is scary stuff:
Sometimes you don’t realize what’s wrong with your country until someone comes here from a different country and shines a blinding spotlight on it.
Prison Mitch (@MidnightMitch) ~ It's cheaper to buy a fully automatic Red Ryder AR-15 than it is to register to vote. #GunControlNow
Heh heh heh heh heh.
The truth hurts.
Almost as much as getting shot with a BB gun, which is what Pádraig Belton has captured in his photo.
Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) ~ These are BB guns.
Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) ~ You’ll shoot your eye out ... but not much else with those BB guns.
Oh man. For Pádraig’s sake, we hope he hasn’t already put together a segment on this for BBC. Because that would be really embarrassing.
Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) ~ This reminds me of the time a guy found a round of .22 LR in York and freaked out. He was STARTLED but luckily the police came and put it in "safe storage." The cops even asked for people to call in with tips. I imagine the investigation is still ongoing. http://yorkpress.co.uk/news/8805022.22-bullet-found-in-fossgate-york/
OH, NOOOOOO ... an unfired .22 LR cartridge ... that's almost as bad as discovering an unexploded land mine!
Patrick Hedger (@PatHedger1
~ Americans strongly believe in the right to self defense, ok?
Damn straight, we do!
HARD FACTOR (@HardFactorNews) ~ This is why you lost in 1776.
Prison Mitch (@MidnightMitch) ~ Not knowing the difference between a BB gun and a real gun is yet another example of why we needed our independence from England.
Learning to code (@jtLOL) ~ Have you checked for Super-Soakers?
BiasedGirl (@BiasedGirl) ~ Awww. Now this is funny ... and kind of sad.
Kira (@RealKiraDavis) ~ Obviously these are BB guns but don't be too hard on the ol' chap. They've long been disarmed across the pond, of both defense and fun.
Fair enough. But all the same:
Noam Blum (@neontaster) ~ Not sure if I trust you around a live electrical socket if you think those things are actual rifles.
Better safe than sorry.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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