“Gun control is for wimps and commies.”

Folks here are celebrating Bayram (the 4 day festal celebration at the end of Ramadan) by clogging up the grocery stores, feasting 24/7, and firing their guns into the air. The firing starts at about 8 in the morning and is loudest at night when more people are out celebrating. I don't know, I suppose that guns are sort of their substitute for fireworks?

This morning the apartment building literally shook once from one that was fired almost under our window, it seems. We debated on whether or not going outside would be wise, so we faced the mobbed supermarket and stocked up on groceries yesterday.

Everytime a gun fires it's hard not to be amused. Kat and I have been giggling all day. I think I find it so funny because America is so anti-gun as a whole, and I'm almost refreshed to be living in a culture where shooting guns is associated with celebration and feasting. It's also sort of redemptive, if you really think about it, for such a war-ridden culture. Or maybe because of all the wars, they just have the gun itch?