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Desensitization to guns (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 34 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

I would have just assumed it was from his time in the army, since, you know... Watson was in the army. And also the fact he is a detective's assistant that got into scraps with bad guys frequently.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I mean it is, but you're very much not allowed to keep your gun after you leave. (I'm assuming OP is referring to "Sherlock", the modern-day BBC adaptation)

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah but even then that's one of the seemingly universal jokes about the military, that being folks smuggling out their service weapons. Great grandad's Colt/ Makarov/ Webley/ Beretta/ Luger/ et cetera. Pretty sure I've heard stories of soldiers jacking artillery back in the 1700s for similar reasons, have folks use and take care of a piece of equipment and they'll probably try to keep it forever, hell you can still find WW2 era junk that got smuggled out for basically that reason.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Except it really doesn't have a basis. There are few militaries from developed and stableish nations that allow you to keep your weapon outside of the situation that require it, let alone have a mechanism for service weapons to be kept after service. Several Nordic countries bordering russia notwithstanding.

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