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BeardOfKnowledge

BeardOfKnowledge

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Qat said:
Yeah you prolly take a knife with ya into nature as a tool to do things n stuff. Makes sense. I do the same.

And people take a gun with em into the city as a tool when scary people come around in this totally 'polite' society. Makes sense as well.

You or others will prolly respond with "nah it's just being prepared". But if anything, that preparation is for scary situations. An armed society is a scared society.
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"Medical insurance is for scared people."

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Qat said:
Yeah you prolly take a knife with ya into nature as a tool to do things n stuff. Makes sense. I do the same.
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The knife laws in Florida are weird. Legally you can't conceal carry a knife with a blade over a certain length, so when I go hiking I often carry an outdoor knife clipped to my belt.

One time I was visiting this park where a fairly large coyote had previously approached me. It was out of curiosity but I wasn't taking any chances and walked with one hand close to the hilt.

A homeless guy (big problem in public parks here) was doing some exercise on a paved trail when I appeared out of the blue from the bushes. He started speed-walking and looking over his shoulder every few seconds at the lunatic caressing his knife hilt.

Then I disappeared into the brush again just to scare the shit out of him. Then I stabbed him later and fed his body to alligators.

I may have lied at some point in this story.
 
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Shinkicker said:
Preparing for a scary situation is not the same as being actively scared.

Wtf lol
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You do have a point.

On the other hand you are preparing for those situations coz you are afraid of your fellow people.
If your society were that polite, you wouldn't need to prepare.
 
BeardOfKnowledge

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Qat said:
You do have a point.

On the other hand you are preparing for those situations coz you are afraid of your fellow people.
If your society were that polite, you wouldn't need to prepare.
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"Locking your door is for scared people."

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Filthy

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Qat said:
Yeah you prolly take a knife with ya into nature as a tool to do things n stuff. Makes sense. I do the same.

And people take a gun with em into the city as a tool when scary people come around in this totally 'polite' society. Makes sense as well.

You or others will prolly respond with "nah it's just being prepared". But if anything, that preparation is for scary situations. An armed society is a scared society.
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why is fear a prerequisite of preparedness?

are you scared every time you buck your seatbelt?
 
Shinkicker

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Qat said:
You do have a point.

On the other hand you are preparing for those situations coz you are afraid of your fellow people.
If your society were that polite, you wouldn't need to prepare.
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Tbh, I’m more afraid of crazy texting drivers than I am of a gun toter.
 
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Shinkicker said:
Well there you have it. The majority of gun toting owners don’t kill people. Get a gun and join us. We will have an even greater majority of non killers!
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What gets me is all the guys who catch felonies every year because they were carrying unlicensed firearms in their car.
Guy's a low level drug dealer for example, he gets stopped with an AR. One he was never gonna use.

You always hear about people getting pulled over and, surprise, another guy goes to prison over weapons he didn't or would never need.
 
Shinkicker

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Who carries a knife to a park?
Handsome King Donald said:
What gets me is all the guys who catch felonies every year because they were carrying unlicensed firearms in their car.
Guy's a low level drug dealer for example, he gets stopped with an AR. One he was never gonna use.

You always hear about people getting pulled over and, surprise, another guy goes to prison over weapons he didn't or would never need.
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Now you are getting the idea!

I like you.
 
Shinkicker

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Handsome King Donald said:
What gets me is all the guys who catch felonies every year because they were carrying unlicensed firearms in their car.
Guy's a low level drug dealer for example, he gets stopped with an AR. One he was never gonna use.

You always hear about people getting pulled over and, surprise, another guy goes to prison over weapons he didn't or would never need.
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If armed car drivers can carry firearms to protect the cargo then so can they!
 
Splinty

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Handsome King Donald said:
What gets me is all the guys who catch felonies every year because they were carrying unlicensed firearms in their car.
Guy's a low level drug dealer for example, he gets stopped with an AR. One he was never gonna use.

You always hear about people getting pulled over and, surprise, another guy goes to prison over weapons he didn't or would never need.
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I had to read that about 5 times to really understand what was going on.
In Texas there's nothing illegal about that. Anybody can roll around with their AR-15 and also their pistol wedged between their seats. No training needed. That person can then strap that pistol on their waist sling their AR over their back and walk into waffle House to eat some eggs.

I can't imagine being a police officer simultaneously held accountable for differentiating good and bad guys while not being too aggressive and having the whole world come after you. People act like it's just the media and the left wing out for cops. But open carry laws create this ambiguity and set these cops up for failure.
 
Freeloading Rusty

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MMAHAWK said:
@Lars
What is the Canadian SRO program?
Yes it looks like it may have just been ended but was it cops for 40 years on some school campuses?
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Safety Resource Officers didn’t to text schools from outside threats they were there to build community and foster trust between students and police officers.
 
Shinkicker

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Splinty said:
Do armed car drivers get background checks and basic arms training in safety and legality?
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People get driver’s licenses every day and are still shit drivers. Some even go through extra training to get a commercial driver’s license. Still not a lick of common sense!
 
Splinty

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Shinkicker said:
Omfg
Whataboutisms!

Eu tu, Brute?
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Not at all.
You're trying to make an equivalency between a trained individual that had an enhanced background check as justification for an untrained individual that might have obtained their gun with no background check and no training.

A CHL holder would be a more equivocal example compared to the armored truck guy. And in that case, you do see that a CHL holder is less likely to commit violent crimes and gun crimes than the average population.


I'm also fully recognizing the mocking tone of all of your posts.
 
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Shinkicker said:
People get driver’s licenses every day and are still shit drivers. Some even go through extra training to get a commercial driver’s license. Still not a lick of common sense!
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This is definitely a very good logic to justify getting rid of all drivers training as a requisite for driving in public.
 
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