• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The entire rest of the world looks at this picture and goes “Oo look, a bunch of pathetic cowards!”

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        10 months ago

        If you own a gun and you’re not a hunter, farmer, or sportsman, you’re a fuckin coward

        There ya go

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          10 months ago

          I keep a pistol in my bedside drawer because I live in an area where a crackhead might decide to break into my house with his own gun. I use it exclusively at the range and I keep it tucked away, not on my person, 100% of the time.

          Tell me, in your own words, how I’m a coward.

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                10 months ago

                Fuck, it might not even help much if you have it during the robbery… I imagine you don’t pull sick John Wick moves when you’re being robbed. You might not have enough time to go get the gun, and if not that, a lot of other things could go wrong.

                But the question still makes sense. People spend lifetimes worrying about things that never happened to them or anybody they know. I wanted to know if he had reason for having a gun.

                And he answered!

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                  10 months ago

                  this is true, but having one is definitely going to be more useful than not. At the very least you have some sense of self defense, at a ranged distance.

                  My point is, worrying about something prematurely is better than worrying about something after it’s too late. You wanna know why the internet explodes once a year because of cloudflare? People not worrying about things until after they implement them.

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                    10 months ago

                    There’s such a thing as being too prudent. Guns are dangerous to own, and can cause accidents. They can cause escalation that is worse than having a watch, a laptop and some jewelry stolen, which is what most small-time robbers will be looking for (in my mind).

                    I’m nobody to judge your or the parent poster for owning a gun though. I’m not an American, and crackheads don’t have guns on this side of Canada. Plus, I also drive sometimes, which is also risky, but the benefits outweigh the risks.

                    I’m just trying to challenge my own belief that they’re more trouble/risk than they’re worth, by asking a gun owner for their perspective on the matter.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah, all those people out there who need them to defend themselves against harassment, abuse, and violence are so cowardly 🙄

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            10 months ago

            What, all those people in Britain? France? Germany? Australia?

            Or are you talking about the undeveloped countries?

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              10 months ago

              Yeah, all those non-white countries with their savage ways, unlike you pure milk-white holier-than-thou saviours who think your culture is better than us melanated folk 🙄

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                  10 months ago

                  The country where Hispanics are demographically overtaking whites, proving my point that you’re just being a racist, arrogant, self-satisfied prick.

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                    10 months ago

                    You didn’t prove shit. The downvote counter lets me think nobody agrees with you 🤷‍♂️

                    Saying the US is a cesspool is not racism. It’s an opinion, that you may think is wrong, but still not racism.

                    Stop sniffing glue.

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      10 months ago

      Hi someone from the rest of the world here. With no context this just looks like a corny family photo and I don’t see a reason to be so hateful over it.