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Americans are desensitized to guns, but the Dr. Watson from the Sherlock Holmes stories was a military veteran who often carried his army revolver. Anybody with a passing familiarity with the character of Dr. Watson could think, "I guess he keeps his gun in his desk."
This post says "the first episode of sherlock where john watson opens up his drawer and you see a gun".
So, it's talking about the Sherlock mini-series from 2010 which was set in modern times. I don't think that in modern times a military veteran is allowed to keep a gun in a drawer.
I think that everyone is over complicating this.
When you see he has a gun in the mini-series, you're just reminded of how the he had a revolver in the books. You aren't going to think about it because he's supposed to have a gun. You just say, "Oh, he still has a gun."
I think the disconnect is probably between people who know Dr. Watson from the books, and people who don't know the books. The Sherlock mini-series is obviously targeted at people who never read the books. So it's entirely possible that they wanted the viewer to question its existence.
It's still weird to keep it in a drawer
Where else are you going to keep it? The fridge? Hell I keep my muzzle loader next to my desk, mostly because I just got it and have yet to find a proper place for it.
From the other comments I concluded that in the UK the gun stays at the police station. But even if an officer were to be allowed to take it home, in most developed countries it has to be stored in a safe. And the key must be unavailable for anyone other than the permit holder.
I’m a veteran with a .22 in my desk drawer that has a muzzle suppressor (if I am going to use it I don’t want to damage my ears).
In the UK?
Merica obviously, those commie governments across the pond don’t allow people on the internet
Are you lost? Do you not understand what this whole thread is about?
Looking at the down votes i think lemmy could use a lesson in media literacy
Yeah, this place seems full of people nobody would enjoy being around. Like fuck anyone taking the piss and having fun with something trying to joke around at the shit state of the world.
I am honestly finding myself using reddit more now.
And do you live inside or outside of the US?
United we stand!
The majority of the UK had guns readily available up until the great war. Then the population was disarmed, the homicide rate was lower than it is today in the UK... Sherlock was written for those times, and guns were not unusual.
This particular series takes the characters and puts them in present day London, what was normal in the 19th century doesn't apply for the character in the example
[sic] there were no firearm restrictions in effect, but less than 1% of the population had firearms. The Firearms act of 1920 disarmed this percentage over fears of surges in crime, as well as worries that the working class would get too unruly
I don't know what % of the population had firearms but they were as you said no restrictions...and let's be honest...it wasn't about crime, it was about disarming the working class.
Sherlock is also armed in several of the original sir. Arthur Conan Doyle stories. Iirc most the time he borrows a revolver from Scotland Yard.
I have no knowledge about the UK, but I can say that was the case for Germany. Gun control in the modern sense only began after WW1 when large numbers of weapons fell into civilian hands.
In the 19th century, shooting practice was mandatory as part of the military system; reserve and conscription. Kinda like how it still survives in Switzerland. But as the UK rarely had a need for large land armies, the population was not militarized to such a degree.