• redditmodssucks@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    And then when it happens they don’t do it because they never practiced with a firearm in a high stress situation before.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      You are spot on!

      I practice. I run from one end of my camp to the other with my slung AR-15. Shaking and sweating I can put steel on target (10’x10’) at 40’. That’s gotta be good enough. Did I mention I have emphysema?

      BTW, I have a brown, immigrant wife, so this is a practical exercise vs. fantasy.

  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Fucking hell, just go and play airsoft or paintball…

    Actually don’t… we don’t want your types turning our rather fun games of honesty into shouting matches over what is simply just a game.

  • ladicius@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Gun owners houses are a nice shopping centre for gun and ammo thieves I suppose.

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      8 hours ago

      I can’t speak for all, but I have a safe that is bolted to the floor. If they get in there, they did more work than robbing the gun store.

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        6 hours ago

        Burglars might score a single-shot shotgun or two from me, like the one over the door, if they notice it. Now let’s see them figure out how to use one!

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      12 hours ago

      Yeah “this house defended by Smith & Wesson” and such macho posturing shit basically a “FREE GUNS” sign for thieves

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        6 hours ago

        No one sane puts those idiot signs up. Over in /r/liberalgunowners the mantra was, "Keep that cutsie shit on your rifle case, not public.)

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        7 hours ago

        Only if every soldier knows how to operate and maintain any kid of gun they can possibly come across, and only if they can magically build supply lines to move the right ammo to the right places without knowing where it all is ahead of time, and only if nobody booby traps anything. There’s a reason soldiers don’t procure on site unless they have to.

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      7 hours ago

      You’re ignorant, shut up. It’s either on me or unloaded in the safe. The ammo is in another safe in another room.

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    11 hours ago

    Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight 
    (Shoot to kill now, shoot to kill)
    Oh, I’m prayin’ somebody tries to break in here tonight 
    (Shoot to kill now, shoot to kill)
    I always keep a Magnum in my trunk 
    You better ask yourself, do you feel lucky, punk? 
    Because I’m trigger happy
    Trigger happy every day

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      9 hours ago

      Oh, I accidentally shot Daddy last night in the den
      (Shot Daddy in the den)
      I mistook him in the dark for a drug-crazed Nazi again!
      (Drug-crazed Nazi again)
      Now why’d you have to get so mad?
      It was just a lousy flesh wound, Dad!
      You know I’m trigger happy
      Trigger happy every day (Ooh, trigger happy every day)

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    8 hours ago

    Not a very good comic for the current state of things. Right now being anti-gun is at best suicidal and at worst straight up traitorous. You can’t afford to be anti-gun when the government is literally turning fascist.

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        6 hours ago

        And you’d rather have literally nothing when the fascists all have them?

        If you don’t participate in an arms race you’re the next person to be subjugated. We know everyone loses in one, but not participating at all is suicidal. You can’t afford to be neutral on a moving train.

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      The left will never win an arms race against the right. Even discounting their gigantic headstart they also have way more money and resources and the backing of the arms manufacturers to get more weapons.

      Our best bet is to try and put up as much gun control as possible and try and reduce the advantage they already have, not try and start a losing war that’ll get us killed.

      Or be like Switzerland and give every man military training and a gun from the state to completely even the playing field.

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        36 minutes ago

        Cops are on their side. They are not going to take their guns away. They’ll take away the guns from minorities instead.

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    7 hours ago

    Fuck all of you ignorant assholes. Shooting another person is the last thing I ever want to do with any of my guns. That’s not why I have them, that’s not what I like to do with them.

    After the Hunger Games movies came out, there was a huge number of young girls taking up the hobby of archery because they wanted to be like Katniss Everdeen. Are you going to accuse them of penetrating themselves with their arrows while they fantasize about killing people? Of course not, because that would make you a sick weirdo.

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    6 hours ago

    Ah, another post from a person who knows nothing about gun culture except what liberals have instructed them to believe.

    No one talks like this. No one acts like this. The closest you’ll find on YT are videos about whether or not $X is appropriate for home defense, and that shit is played out, rare enough now, we’re mostly on the same page. (OP is now madly hunting a fringe guntuber with 500 subscribers.)

    Reminds me of a (former) conservative friend, "Well yeah! You liberals all believe (insane bullshit incoming).

    “Who the fuck told you that? Who the hell are you listening to?”

    Oh! You get your information and world view from memes! I get it. I prefer not to countenance words on pictures.

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      3 hours ago

      I live in Texas and I have to be careful making friends because plenty of guys here are like this. I’m not saying it’s the majority, but you’re absolutely wrong if you think this kind of thinking isn’t prevalent in some areas of the US.