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    -25 hours 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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      15 hours 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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          15 hours ago

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

          • capital
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            04 hours 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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              44 hours 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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                  24 hours 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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                    04 hours ago

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

      • capital
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        -15 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          118 minutes 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.

          • capital
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            02 hours ago

            If stopping someone in the act of stealing my shit or trying to harm me is vigilantism, then sure.