You know, I don’t think guns are very safe.

I grew up fishing using lead split shot sinkers. The common practice is biting down on them to crimp them onto the line. Lead is still the standard. I don’t want to think about how much of that is in my system.

I always put a condom on my gun for extra protection

“Wait… It’s still lead poisoning?”

“Always has been…”

Cop brain is a real thing.

Sounds like a self-correcting problem

There are lead warnings on every box and every safety manual but you just can’t fix stupid.

Yes, well, gun owners are a special kind of stupid.

So that’s why red state MAGAs seem like they’re brain damaged.

doesn’t lead toxicity cause aggressive behavior? Seems like a pretty bad mix. Almost like you could hypothesize a correlation between our current political climate and lead exposure.

Wouldn’t it be crazy if we could solve a big chunk of our political issues by just banning lead in stuff?

I’m not surprised. People don’t even wash their hands after using the rest room.

Isn’t lead only (highly) dangerous to infants and children as the main effect is wreaking havoc with development?

I mean I wouldn’t put it past americans to let children shoot all day long so …

Every time I try to tell them, but they wouldn’t lead me explain

Since a few people in the thread seem to think lead ammunition is illegal in the US, it’s not. It’s only illegal for shooting waterfowl nationwide, and entirely banned in the state of California.

I live with an individual that doesn’t have the strongest immune system. While their immune system isn’t great, I’ve opted out of going to the range for the time being. I’m sure there’s a good way to make sure I don’t cover them with lead; but I can’t be bothered risking it for a few hours of outside time