• Lena@gregtech.eu
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    I agree that’s stupid, but it’s entirely reasonable to arm yourself in the current state of the world.

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      “I agree with what the comic is saying, but I disagree with what the comic is not saying.”

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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    Christopher Walken agrees.

    I’ve [fired a gun] a lot in movies, but there are too many guns in the real world. I know people with guns, and they always say the same thing. “If somebody breaks into my house, I have to be able to defend myself.” But what they’re really saying is, “I hope somebody breaks into my house so I can use this thing.” It’s so wrong.

    Source

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      I’m 39 years old and would you believe that my house has never been broken into? Not even once. I must be super lucky. It seems to be happening all the time from what people say.

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        I’m younger than you. Had my home broken into once. Brother had his broken into three times. Not to say a gun would have helped in any of those instances, but homes do get broken into.

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          Mass majority of the cases are when people aren’t home. The thieves want a quick in and out score, not to have to face a possible armed home owner. The type of person depicted in the comic just wants to kill “certain” people only and we know it’s just thinly veiled racism at this point.

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    And when the police do a no knock raid and you shoot them, you’re going to get the death penalty for defending your home

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      This has been a thing forever and it’s usually the people who didn’t go into the military that get a hard on for wanting to shoot someone

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        And I would add to the argument there’s a second, less visible gun culture in the USA. You have the right wing idiots who put loaded pistols between sofa cushions with toddlers in the house and people who are fine with guns far left of them that lock them up properly, don’t broadcast it with posters, bumper stickers, and what not You know, more responsible people.

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        The whole maga crowd has been so hardcore FAFO since 2020 a lot of people I knew where genuinely itching to find someone they could “legally” kill.

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    these are what you call AMMOSEXUALs, they really do fantasize about it, and its exclusively conservatives, they are also paranoid asf.

    once followed some ytubers that turned magaty, and they were literally “euphoric” at the thought of shooting someone(a “intruder”) and one of them even has multiple guns stashed at thierhouse in case of this.

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        I don’t understand the Purge.

        If crime were legal for a day I’d do things like pay a mortgage off with company money, not murder randos.

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          The first purge movie was just really heavy social commentary on POC and racism, homelessness amongst veterans, jealousy amongst neighbors, and the wealthy who practically are killing people for fun at this point.

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        And for some reason they always assume they won’t be a victim in the purge. Like when people think it would be cool to be a 40k space marine when there’s a 99% chance you end up as a servitor.

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          Those people don’t really understand the social and political commentary that’s been in WH40K. Albeit it’s less blatantly obvious now and more dark satire but it’s there.

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            Yup they see cool looking space marine and don’t understand they were basically tortured into shape from birth.

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            It would even suck to be the emperor of mankind. Everyone is suffering for Grim-Dumb reasons in 40k like the nuclear rodmen that refuel starships or whatever… even a dumb robot on rails using limit switches can do the job but noooooo we have to melt an entire human being per rod bundle.

        • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
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          Yeah unfortunately in the Apocalypse, most people, by definition, are dead, so the chances are that you are also dead and thus cannot live out your Mad Max fantasies.

          • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            And most preppers will last as long as the canned food does. A lot of them are just people who want to kill people without problems with no thought to continuity of civilization after an event.

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          A ton of chuds think just because they have a tricked out bro-rifle they’ll be surviving deep into the apocalypse. The ones whose truck are covered in gun decals, have a “protected by the 2nd amendment” sign in their front yards and punisher skull shit all over the place.

          75% of them have put 1 mag through each gun

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            Where as real prepparing people aren’t just hoarding canned goods and ammunition. They’re learning animal husbandry, how to grow crops, rotation of crops, ways to clean and purify water. Trying to rebuild society stuff that the typical reactionary couldn’t understand.

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

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      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.

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

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        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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            I attended a gun show once, and went with a friend who had worked in a gun store for years and was much more familiar than me, to prevent me from making a fool of myself.

            There was a table advocating for “Constitutional Carry,” that is, arguing that there should be no licensing required for concealed carry. There were two guys manning the table, one maybe in his thirties, and the other a guy in his fifties or sixties with a long grey beard.

            I’d have just walked by, but my friend marched right up and said “Hey, just so you know, I hope you guys fail.”

            The younger guy kind of tenses up and bristles a little and the older guy says “Oh? Why is that?”

            And my friend says “I worked in a gun store for over ten years, and I turned in more concealed carry permit applications than I can remember, and…” and at this point she gestures around to the room behind us, “… I wouldn’t trust 95% of the people in this room with a gun.”

            And the older guy kind of smiles and nods and says “Yeah, okay, that’s fair.”

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      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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        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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        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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      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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    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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      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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    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.