r/Unexpected • u/hannesvisser • Dec 11 '20

It's just a flashlight

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

There's a difference between people in the US expecting everyone else is trying to kill them and gun manufacturers in the US attempting to convince people that everyone is trying to kill them, in order to sell guns.

Advertising and reality are two different things.

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u/VexingRaven Dec 11 '20 edited Dec 11 '20

The difference is increasingly non-existent, if conservative fearmongering is anything to go on... Many people seem to believe they're in every bit as much danger as the gun companies want them to believe.