Your typical American gun carrier is not only non-participatory in [gun-related crime], he strongly favors putting a stop to them by hanging the perpetrators, or imprisoning them for long periods. Your state-run news media is highly critical of this political goal, because it is considered cruel to murderous gangsters, whom they are inexplicably fond of.
Although perhaps it has something to do with the precise manner in which they are demographically distinct.
However, the average gun-toting middle class middle American suffers zero risk of being involved in one of these events, and zero inconvenience from the them, apart from smug and ignorant remarks from your state-run news media, dutifully repeated by you.
We do, however, occasionally wish you would have some original thoughts on this matter, on those rare occasions when we think about you at all.
However, even with such a robust firearms culture, we do not, not ever, sleep with guns under our pillows.
There are, of course, certain guns that it would be safe to sleep on in such a manner. Modern American firearms are very mechanically safe indeed, unless they say @sigsauerinc on them.
But we don’t sleep on them, because it is a silly thing to do. They are made of metal. Big lumps of metal under your pillow are not conducive to sleep. Additionally, should you wake up and find you have an urgent need for a gun, it’s not a good idea to fumble around for wherever it was pushed to as you were having that one dream that you definitely won’t tell your wife about.
Instead, it is a good idea to know exactly where your gun is. It’s leaning up against the nightstand, with a set of protective earmuffs hanging on the barrel, because the AR-15 rifle is quite loud.
No, the gun-under-the-pillow thing, like most every mental image of guns that you have, is produced in Hollywood, by people who own a lot more dildos and bongs than guns. Which is why they play with them like toys and negligently shoot the director of photography, then lecture the rest of us about how dangerous guns are.
Dear European fr… acquaintances who mysteriously vanish when it’s your turn to buy a round:
Yes, here in America, we have a lot of guns. Most of us own guns. This varies from large, left leaning coastal cities where only a few people do, and you’re likely to find more dildos… https://t.co/qVjFxd5zCC pic.twitter.com/FVTNN3jcSB
— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) April 20, 2025
Actually, a surprising number of American gun owners to sleep with a gun under their pillow.
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#4 · Dec 10, 2013
I’ve put one under the pillow next to me when I was out of town for business. It was my 1911, I wouldn’t do that with a Glock Chambered.
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Kozak
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#5 · Dec 10, 2013
Under my pillow? Yes. Have 2 pillows so it doesn’t bother me. Unloaded but a full mag within reach.“
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I know it’s hard for some people to understand. But America and Europe are different countries. In Europe’s case many different countries. Many different cultures. Surprising, isn’t it?
In England the courts just decided you had to be born a woman to be a woman. In Germany insulting a pol will get you jailed.
So far, of the countries I’ve been to I prefer the US.
Comments like these made by Europeans just shows that their education system is also failing.
Sleeping with a gun under the pillow never occurred to me(age 82).
And sleeping with a gun under a second pillow(under my lover’s head), unloaded and the magazine removed certainly is a no no and rather impractical.
1. Gun under a pillow loaded is asking for a negligent discharge. Being half awake handling a gun in the heat of the moment is not a wise thing to do, which leads to # 2.
2. Being awaken and having to feel around for a gun and a magazine is not easy or logical for several reasons. Even if the gun and magazine are found in a timely manner, the magazine still has to be inserted and the slide racked to load a round which is rather time consuming when seconds could make a lot of difference.
Speaking of “heat of the moment”, what if in the heat of that other moment the gun/magazine is knocked from under the pillow to who knows where and later it is needed for protection……the conclusion should be self explanatory.
3rd comment. First 2 went missing. I am done with these slip shod sites.
I’m wondering where all mine on this article/page have gone. Blocked? Still in mod purgatory after several hours? Why?
I’m going to see if a slightly changed username and different email address will let this slip by the site’s goblins. But even so, I think I might finally be done with this site, as well as Dan’s previous one, which went right off a cliff with the new owners.
Yup. Immediately posted and visible. So that means Dan has blocked my username after literally a full decade of using it while following him and his sites. Not good, Dan. I must have been one of your most vanilla and worthy visitors all these years, yet routinely blocked and/or modded since this whole issue began ramping up a couple of years ago.
I’m done for a while. Going to take a long sabbatical for a few months and reconsider whether TTAG and SNW are worth the bother anymore. Tout the 2A, but squash the 1A. Got it.
Do your comments say awaiting moderation or do they vanish as the page refreshes? The latter has been happening to me so often lately that I copy the comment before I post it, just in case. I change the IP, try again, and it usually posts.
Edit: After multiple tries, I had to leave, clear my cache, change the IP, and try again. What a pain. It didn’t used to be this bad. I assume it’s to fight spam. I used the same email and user name every time.
“However, even with such a robust firearms culture, we do not, not ever, sleep with guns under our pillows.”
Under my pillow?
No need, when all I have to do is reach under my nightshirt… 🙂
Finger on the trigger? You could have done a better job! LOL
Trigger on trigger while snoozing? Should never be on trigger when awake