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.
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
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?
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I did this a lot as a kid. One time I went too far and my neighbor threw me up on a fence. He told me if I ever did it again, he would whip me with a belt.
Jesus Christ! That’s ridiculous. I am so sorry.
I kinda deserved it. We were doing that shit at 2 am.
Only if you’re black or brown.
I mean if you try this in Texas, that’s on you. It’s front page news like every day.
Yeah, we know Texans are immoral, irresponsible gun owners.
Yeah how fucking old were you when you started reading the newspaper genius??
websites have pages don’t they
