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    13 months ago

    Yeah, not here.

    I’ve had shit stolen. The police “handled it” to an extent but we will never get back priceless family heirlooms given to us from my wife’s side of the family. Fuck thieves.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      Did you not have a gun at the time? Or did your ownership of a gun not prevent the theft?

        • Flying Squid
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          93 months ago

          Well then aren’t you lucky you had a gun to prevent that theft?

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            13 months ago

            I honestly can’t tell if this is sarcasm or if you have reading comprehension problems.

            I wasn’t home. There was no possibility for me to prevent this theft, gun or no gun.

            If it’s sarcasm meant to show that things can happen even when armed, no shit. If that is meant to show I shouldn’t have one at all, would the counterfactual (situations in which a theft or assault were stopped or prevented) be sufficient to show one should carry?

            • Flying Squid
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              103 months ago

              Dude, you’re the one talking about how guns can stop theft and your example was a theft that you were not able to stop with a gun. That’s not my fault.

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                would the counterfactual (situations in which a theft or assault were stopped or prevented) be sufficient to show one should carry?

                If not, what was even the point of the question? I get you thought it was pithy but… It’s just kind of dumb if you won’t allow the counterfactual to support my position.

                • Flying Squid
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                  63 months ago

                  Dude, you’re the one talking about how guns can stop theft and your example was a theft that you were not able to stop with a gun. That’s not my fault.

                  • capital
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                    13 months ago

                    Yeah, I wouldn’t want to answer that question if I were you either.

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        13 months ago

        I’ll opt for stopping it, given the chance.

        • @[email protected]
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          63 months ago

          You would kill a person for a thing. Sounds like the mindset of an armed violent thug, only you wait for the excuse to unleash your violence.

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                13 months ago

                By that logic we all are. Your line is just somewhere else.

                • @[email protected]
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                  53 months ago

                  Actually most people aren’t waiting for an excuse to murder another human. That would undoubtedly be a psychological disorder

                  • capital
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                    13 months ago

                    You want me to believe there’s no situation in which you would use deadly force?

                    You’re lying or lack imagination.