Man has his gun robbed... ...at gunpoint

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It may be that the gun he was showing to his cousin wasn't loaded and he wisely assumed that the gun in the robber's waistband was loaded.

I am trying to visualize how this would happen and the gun not being loaded seems most likely. The headline of "open carry" has the implication of it being loaded but that's just somebody's choice for how to word the story, not proof that it was.

I am wondering why a man not actually holding a gun in his hand would feel confident approaching a man who is. It isn't reported in the story but is plausible that the robber overheard something that made him confident he was approaching somebody with an unloaded gun. Maybe the guy said. "don't worry, it's not loaded" to his cousin before showing the gun. That's just my guess but it does make the story more sensible.

It has that meaning just about everywhere, not just in Ireland or wherever this country is.
Do you have a point to make?

Cowboys are an american institution. Maybe its just me, but I thought that part was obvious.

Very few Americans are "cowboys". That is obvious as well.
And again, if you're that bothered by our cavalier and reckless behaviour then simply stay on your side of the pond......

Very few Americans are cowboys but nearly all cowboys are Americans.

Its not that i'm particularly bothered, but those that are unfortunate enough to be on your side of the pond should rack it up on their list of reasons to feel anxious about idiots walking around with loaded firearms.

Its not that i'm particularly bothered, but those that are unfortunate enough to be on your side of the pond should rack it up on their list of reasons to feel anxious about idiots walking around with loaded firearms.

So call me an idiot that walks around with a loaded gun (I do) and get over it already.

How fortunate we are that criminals are all certified geniuses. So we needn't be concerned about them.

Worked for years for a drugstore chain.

Among of the most frequently shoplifted items in a drugstore are: padlocks!

One store manager I met told me he even once caught a priest pocketing a padlock.

For some reason the topic reminded me of that.

Wars are rarely fought for 'clever' reasons. Christians in Hibernia don't 'kill each other' primarilly because they are christian but because of their background and due to which are percieved to have different loyalties owing to the Northern Ireland sovereignty question. The fact that one side is a different christian denomination from the other is more of a historical fait accomplis than the sole reason for the antagonism. Its a very complicated, centuries old scenario that can not be crystallised solely either to religion or nationality but a unique and bizarre mixture of both. In any case, I don't and never expect foreigners to understand it. Heck, most people living in the British isles don't understand it.

Anyway, i digress. Of course America as either a society or nation was never always this brazen and arrogant, but never in its short history has it been in charge of so much political and economic power. To borrow a simile it is like a young child that has found its father's gun. Granted. a very fat and bulky child, stinking to high heaven of cheese snacks with burger relish running down his lips, but a young child nonetheless.

About the potato famine refugees that is a fair point, but a sizable proportion of those people also went to England and Australia as well. Anyway i was more talking about America in the context of how it is now, particularly in the post-british empire world and as it is percieved to be the world's 'top dog'. That is the arrogant America of which i speak.

The arrogant America without which you'd be communicating in German right now

and a man on the moon would be only a dream.

But somehow you'd try to blame the U.S.? You sound like a mouthpiece for Russian or Chinese interests. I wonder what country provides more medical aid to the rest of the world when needed?

Its a conflict flashpoint; its an entirely different context. It was politically motivated with men who wouldn't otherwise be in posession of weapons had the contentions surrounding sovereignty and civil rights not been there.

The 'sniper at work' sign was a propaganda statement, nothing more.

IRA men were never brazenly walking around with guns at every opportunity unlike amateur nuts in the USA, subtley and secrecy were part of their very code.

I have nothing to get over; its not my country as you said. That being said and done it doesn't mean that i have no right to an opinion or that my opinion is any less valid.

Of course not, but your liberal gun laws hardly made it harder for run of the mill idiots across the board to get their hands on guns.

So where have you been in the US where all these "amateur nuts" were brazenly walking around armed?
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Funny how cities with the strictest gun laws still have more than their fair share of gun related crimes.....
You know, that "Gun Control Challenge" thread that Dox started 2 years ago is still open and waiting for one of your kind to tackle it.