• @[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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              3 months ago

              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.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    63 months ago

                    Sorry, you being unable to come up with a good example is not my problem, so your question is moot.