Why do characters on tv...

[Siege]

TV is made for the lowest common denominator.

[Caliga]

I hear gunshots all the time.  But a human is shot here maybe once a decade.

[CountDeMoney]

I hear gunshots all the time.  But a human is shot here maybe once a decade.

Let's hear it for shooting the beer bottles off the top of the primer gray bitchin Camaro under the tarp back behind the trailer then.

[Ed Anger]

primer gray bitchin Camaro

I knew a guy who had one. It was an awesome car. I kept offering him money for it but he was stubborn. Then he put it into a chain link fence and boy, was his face red.

[garbon]

That's because the only black people on Law & Order are the cops.  Talk about fiction writing.

Law & Order loves to explore the lives of black people in fictional places with whimsical names like Harlem, The Bronx and Queens.

Must be a Dutch writer on the show . . .

I've heard them talk a few times about a place named Brighton Beach and Russians. Who comes up with this stuff?

[Iormlund]

I've never heard a real gun shot.

Really?  That's weird.

Not really. Unless you go hunting or enlist the chances of hearing one over here are virtually nil as well.

[Malthus]

I've never heard a real gun shot.

Really?  That's weird.

Not really. Unless you go hunting or enlist the chances of hearing one over here are virtually nil as well.

You have to basically never go into the country. I hear gunshots pretty well every other week, up at the cottage - mostly, folks shooting tin cans, or hunting.

[Eddie Teach]

I hear gunshots all the time.  But a human is shot here maybe once a decade.

Justified would have us believe otherwise.

[Siege]

I hear gunshots all the time.  But a human is shot here maybe once a decade.

They need some combat training.
I'll start with basic marksmanship and individual movement techniques, and then move on to team movement techniques and tactics, and live fire exercises.

[The Brain]

I hear gunshots all the time.  But a human is shot here maybe once a decade.

They need some combat training.
I'll start with basic marksmanship and individual movement techniques, and then move on to team movement techniques and tactics, and live fire exercises.

[Iormlund]

You have to basically never go into the country. I hear gunshots pretty well every other week, up at the cottage - mostly, folks shooting tin cans, or hunting.

I've lived in a couple small villages a few miles off the city and still can't remember hearing a single shot even though my next door neighbor was a hunter. It is probably different on remote rural areas. IIRC you can only shoot (or even carry loaded) weapons in specially designated zones.

[citizen k]

IIRC you can only shoot (or even carry loaded) weapons in specially designated zones.

In the U.S. we have specially designated zones for not carrying weapons.

[Admiral Yi]

I recently noticed signs up at my bank and work place prohibiting fire arms.

[CountDeMoney]

I recently noticed signs up at my bank and work place prohibiting fire arms.

Unfortunately, morons need to be reminded.  But ohnoes, that's Nanny statism.

[Admiral Yi]

Unfortunately, morons need to be reminded.  But ohnoes, that's Nanny statism.

  Neither my bank nor my employer are owned by the government.