Self defense

@averagejoe1 said
A gun does make you safe(r). But to be doubly safe, use common sense. When you have to think 🤔 whether or not to be somewhere, dont go. If you see a hoodie coming your way, cross the street. Ive never been in a street myself, but i would in that case!

You’ve never been in a street?

@shavixmir said
You’ve never been in a street?

I refer back to previous posts, where I am astounded by the street protesters....signs, megaphones,, missing work, such as that. The parades, the marching. Amazing. I have never done that. Can't remember ever stepping on the asphalt, except for an occasional bike ride....and Crosswalks!!! With crosswalks, why would anyone walk in a street. It is called jaywalking here, and it is illegal!!
I'm not trying to be cynical or funny, it is true.

@shavixmir said
I’ve lived in several major cities and in conflict areas at that.
I’ve travelled the D-train (I think it was the D-train: from Manhatten up to Harlem, anyways) late in the evening. I’ve stumbled through the impoverished areas of Mumbai and Cairo…

Never once have I been attacked, robbed or threatened.

Excluding Ben Gurion airport security. Well, and Mumbai airport sec ...[text shortened]... humor, I tells ya!

I think your attitude is the problem, if you think you need a gun to be safe.

OnIy a man that. carries a gun, needs a gun.

@averagejoe1 said
A gun does make you safe(r). But to be doubly safe, use common sense. When you have to think 🤔 whether or not to be somewhere, dont go. If you see a hoodie coming your way, cross the street. Ive never been in a street myself, but i would in that case!

ReaI Safe
https://news.yahoo.com/pregnant-librarian-killed-pulling-gun-180534570.html

@dood111 said
I bet kevc is going to double down and say something like: "Nooo, the guns aren't illegal, possessing them is illegal derp de derhhhh"

DOO, Do post the intruder story.......Is it reaI?

@averagejoe1 said
A gun does make you safe(r).

I'm safer without a gun, in my country where nearly everybody including the vast majority of criminals also doesn't own a gun, than you are with a gun in your country where any random weirdo you encounter on the street could pull a gun on you and shoot you down before you have time to register that you might want to draw yours.

@contenchess said
Shut up bitch.

I would love to knock you the fuk out.

You're the Vietnam baby killer and probably rapist.

Is that a threat, Fat Boy?
I've spit out punk convicts for breakfast.
EspecialIy sex criminals 😛

@suzianne said
Come back to reality, Joe.

YOU'RE ASkING TOO MUCH, SUZI...

@kevcvs57 said
No that’s people in illegal possession of guns. The reason that so many are in the possession of criminals is because the market place is swamped with legally sold weapons with no meaningful controls regarding them.
If gun owners were required to prove that they still have their guns or the details of who does have them, better yet make direct citizen to citizen transfer or sale of weapons illegal you might keep some of these deadly weapons out of the wrong hands.

.''....the market place is swamped with legally sold weapons with no meaningful controls regarding them.......''
EXACTLY

@averagejoe1 said
I refer back to previous posts, where I am astounded by the street protesters....signs, megaphones,, missing work, such as that. The parades, the marching. Amazing. I have never done that. Can't remember ever stepping on the asphalt, except for an occasional bike ride....and Crosswalks!!! With crosswalks, why would anyone walk in a street. It is called jaywalking here, and it is illegal!!
I'm not trying to be cynical or funny, it is true.

Breaking into The Capitol on Jan 6

@sh76 said
I don't think self-defense laws need to change. In fact, I think they're a bit harsh (though I won't derail the thread by going into that).

I tend to agree, though, that there should be more restrictions and/or training requirements to carry guns in public. I would support a law making it a Misdemeanor to intentionally carry a firearm into a crowded area except for certain sp ...[text shortened]... good reason and Arbery ended up dead, not because he misused his gun at the moment of the shooting.

I wanted this thread to be about self defense and not gun laws, but I guess I'll go with the flow.

Hopefully the end-stage goal of concealed carry for gun rights advocates is not to allow anyone, trained or untrained, to pack heat where ever they go. Among the subset of people who are so fearful of strangers and paranoid by suspect clothing choices that they cannot walk down the street without their lethal force machine, I don't want them carrying.

The person I want carrying is trained in non-lethal combat, able to diffuse tense situations without shooting, able to shoot accurately only when absolutely necessary. If this well-trained person finds themselves in a courtroom, then I would agree that he/she should receive much more benefit of doubt and lenient sentencing than the random teenager who went out on a Tuesday looking for a rifle fight.

@suzianne said
Come back to reality, Joe.

Good post. Gets us thinking.

@wildgrass said
I wanted this thread to be about self defense and not gun laws, but I guess I'll go with the flow.

Hopefully the end-stage goal of concealed carry for gun rights advocates is not to allow anyone, trained or untrained, to pack heat where ever they go. Among the subset of people who are so fearful of strangers and paranoid by suspect clothing choices that they cannot walk ...[text shortened]... and lenient sentencing than the random teenager who went out on a Tuesday looking for a rifle fight.

Oh, you are talking about Utopia. Yes that would be nice.

@averagejoe1 said
Oh, you are talking about Utopia. Yes that would be nice.

LoL

10 thousand years of civilization and modern liberals think they can achieve world peace ✌

@averagejoe1 said
Oh, you are talking about Utopia. Yes that would be nice.

What?