So this reminds me of when I was taking my CCW class and going over hypotheticals and legal ramifications.
One scenario was you see a kid opening your fridge would you shoot the kid. Now there was a church group there that was also taking the class with us and a few of them raised their hands and one was called.
His answer was yes.
My group I was with all looked at each other and went WTF and just shook our heads, raised our hands and went of freaking course not because morally it would be soooo wrong even if it was legally okay.
I’m from Texas and can count the number of responsible gun owners with one hand. I understand why we need to be armed; still there are a lot of people that shouldn’t. Your story reminds of that shooting that happened at a church that happen to have the good guy with a gun tm. There was some talk about allowing some people to be armed at the church I was going to with my parents at the time. Some members and the pastor went to some event with a lawyer talking about some stuff around it and I joined out of curiosity. The overall meeting was pretty mehh, but there was a nice tangent about how much you can drink and still have your gun and ammo. Some cop that was in attendance tried to call them stupid, but they pushed back that its okay if you only drink such percent drink per hour or remove the receiver. Not a great look for the cream of the crop.
I understand why we need to armed;
I don’t. Why?
Because in America things like the Tulsa Race Massacre happen a fair bit, and the cops either stand by or join in, so you have to be able to defend you and yours.
Remember folks, armed minorities are harder to oppress.
Remember folks, armed minorities are harder to oppress
That’s why we hear of all those cases were ICE agents are shot by the people they bully. Oh wait… we don’t.
No but we do hear about things like this
I’d join them in a heartbeat as a minority and you’ll notice that they didn’t go and randomly shoot people either.
Because those people weren’t armed.
Edit: and if that wasn’t true, why are the racists trying to disarm them?
Nazis everywhere
Because we need to be able to defend ourselves and our communities from fascism and others who want to oppress us. Easier said than done of course.
Unfortunately the definition of fascism varies depending on who you’re talking to. There are an astounding number of people in this country who think that allowing abortion or gender affirming care are a form of fascism. And they think it’s alright to use guns to fight what they perceive as fascism.
So how many ICE agents did you already shoot?
Not enough
So what you wanted to say was not a single one right? And you surely are not going to any time soon, just as any other guy that parroted those talking points over the last couple decades.
You wouldn’t believe it. Still not something to post in a public forum.
Have you recently watched the news? Looks like it’s not working.
I have and that does not mean we won’t need to arm ourselves for our defense.
Not according to the bible. Elisha called bears to maul kids for making fun of his bald head.
Is this about the kids that got shot playing ding dong ditch the other day?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/us/ding-dong-ditch-boy-shot-houston-hnk
There was another one where the guy got in his car, chased them down, and ran them off the road. 3 murder charges over a doorbell.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/us/doorbell-prank-california-sentence.html
Wow, California too huh?
The main difference is the Texas case involved a gun, in California the unstable psychopaths need to resort to vehicular manslaughter.
Sadly yes
Ah fuck, I was really hoping this was a random meme and not related to anything topical.
Guess that’s too much to ask for these days, unfortunately. Grim times.
Cass said the boy’s death did not appear to involve self-defense because the shooting “wasn’t close to the house.”
JFC…
As ding-dong-ditch pranks surged after being posted to TikTok, other injuries have been documented in recent years.
Yeah… boy what did we ever do without tiktok lol. Fuck off.
Ding dong ditching used to surge whenever that one episode of the Simpsons played.
Because kids will be kids.
The injuries and deaths seem more linked to adults losing their God damn minds watching Fox News
Lmao as if boomers are that young…
I think boomer has morphed to fit a certain selection of people which basically means ‘old and out of touch’.
Boomer is no longer a age range, it’s a personality.
Like Karen.
To be fair it was a millenial (42 year old) who did that. Still horrible. But yeah.
I wanna say he was late gen X or xillenial, but ill freely admit I just don’t want my generation to take credit for his dumb ass.
It’s more than just dumb. It’s senseless. You gotta divorce yourselves from the love of the gun, cause this is never going to stop until you do. If it’s acceptable to you, carry on. Nothing to see here.
This is the first thing I saw on Lemmy today and it made my morning, thank you lol
Man… My parents used to kick us outta the house in the morning. They would tell us we could come back inside for lunch around noon but then we had to leave again. We would bike around and get into all kind of shenanigans. Call them from a payphone and instead of saying our name for the call we would just tell them where we were super fast and then they would hear that and decline the call lmao.
As long as we came home before the sun went down or we called them from a friend’s house to get approval for a sleep over they didn’t really care what we did all day. Good times.
Now the kids who got to do.that put GPS trackers in their shoes
They want kids to play outside so they have something to shoot.
Cursed country.
American boomers*
meme is killing it.
hey uhhh…you tink da gun sto still open?
Replace the gun with a car.
How much of the “outside” can a kid access today without taking the risk of being it by a car ? As soon as he crosses the door of the house he risks his life.
I don’t understand how we accepted that as normal.
Now compare that with a carless world, kids could go everywhere.
Abduction or aggression are still a risk but almost insignificant compared to the risk of being hit by a car, yet this is the one we are talking about.
Bad straw man, bad.
And that would be great if the initial discussion was about gun vs car deaths. But it’s not, we’re talking explicitly about gun deaths and here about the societal acceptance of a person making conscious decision to shoot a kid over something as stupid as annoying prank.
Now if you want to pull up some data on a person intentionally hitting a kid with a car and killing them for flipping them the bird and how car culture doesn’t see anything wrong with that then sure we can have that discussion then.
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