• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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      8 days ago

      Life isn’t a video game.

      Ask a real world security professional and they’ll tell you to get a dog.

      A gun salesman will tell you that if you buy a gun you automatically become Annie Oakley

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        I think we’re talking two different things. I’m not saying to buy a giant handgun and wait for robbers to come into your house so you can blast them away.

        I’ve known people who fantasize about that. They are gross.

        What I’m saying is that the police in the United States have a history of shooting dogs, so they do absolutely nothing for you anti-fascist security. They would absolutely help against theft and robbery because most robbers want to be quick and quiet. Police don’t care.

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          But so a gun doesn’t help either. It just means they call SWAT and take you down with superior numbers and firepower, doesn’t it?

          The only real place where a gun helps is in an actual civil war, or possibly against a single non-governmental bad guy (with risk of being shot yourself as well).

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        I have a dog. I’m also surrounded by fascists in the deep south. I’m keeping guns because I’d rather live than die for some abstract moral point you’re trying to make about how we should live in a fantasy land where people in fascists states don’t need guns.

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        Ask a real world security professional and they’ll tell you to get a dog.

        I am a (former) real world security professional.

        And I’ll say that a gun is much easier to carry around with you than a dog.

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          Look up MOVE.

          Philadelphia police bombed a house in the middle of the city.

          If it comes to an armed conflict, I really doubt that the folks who couldn’t get Bernie nominated are going to win a firefight.

          Stop living in videogame land.

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        We don’t know that. It might be, and unfortunately I think who ever is playing has gotten bored.