• Zess@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      The stupid part is he used the doorbell exactly as intended. That’s how he knew there was a kid at the door. He’s just trying to shift blame to innocent people doing innocuous things because he wants to shoot them.

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    At my house we mock the dogs for freaking out over the doorbell. “Yeah, a malicious person is going to bother ringing the doorbell”

    This guy is on the level of our dogs.

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      Except dogs actually have a sense of loyality and can be loving. This person is just a fucking cockroach

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    Way too many people, especially Americans, have a gun-slinger complex. They’re looking for an excuse, any excuse, to use their guns, and feel like they’re “heroes”. These people are dangerous and the antithesis of what gun owners should be - responsible and careful. This ain’t the “well regulated militia” mentioned in the constitution, this is angsty, angry, insecure people with issues trying to act tough by shooting someone.

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      It’s a murder fetish. Flat out. They can hem and haw all they want, the end goal of owning a gun is murder.

      “what if someone robs you?!”

      So what, take my wallet with no cash and a card that’ll get locked. Take my phone and watch that are locked and my phone is set to factory reset after a few wrong codes. I can replace them.

      “What if someone breaks into your house?!”

      It’s just stuff. 🤷 They don’t want my fireproof document safe they want my consoles and pcs. My pcs are all backed up off site and the drives are encrypted.

      In both cases I have serial numbers etc of everything also saved off site to report them stolen.

      I put life over stuff. If you gotta pull a gun on me and demand my wallet you’re CLEARLY having a worse day than I am. If I do have cash whatever take my $50 idgaf 🤷

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        That’s kinda my thoughts on the matter. I have a couple rifles and shot guns that are mostly just family heirlooms, and one rifle that’s explicitly for protection.

        Unfortunately i live in one of the most dangerous states in the south, and I’m a minority married to a white woman. When all the racist people in the state were getting all crazy during the trump years, I decided having a rifle that wasn’t an antique was probably a good idea.

        But it’s pretty much explicitly for protecting my family and friends from the potential of eventual racial violence. I would actually feel kinda bad for anyone who actually tried to rob my house, there’s just nothing to really steal. Definitely nothing worth dying or killing for. Hell I’d probably make a pretty good return on the insurance claim.

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    I promise not to use the doorbell, instead I shall announce my arrival by throwing acorns at the door.

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    If you need a gun in order to feel safe in your own home, you live in a shithole country.

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    4 months ago

    Wasn’t there some series of news reports about scams involving children pretending to be lost, but there was some person nearby waiting to jump you?

    I’m not sure if those reports were accurate but i remember hearing about the scam and there being some fear around it. I would like to imagine there’s the possibility of this individual overreacting to such reports, and maybe they aren’t legitimately afraid of a six year old, but i don’t actually know that to be the case.

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    Talking about stuff like this (link below). Again, not saying that the individual was right, but sometimes people read a report and go crazy over It

    https://www.koat.com/article/child-s-knock-on-the-door-a-scam-police-say/5052832

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      Meh. Prank or not, ROBERY or not, I don’t think it’s right to shoot a child at your door