• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    7 days ago

    Ding dong ditch used to be a staple of kiddie pranks… for fuck’s sake! Do none of these idiots have any real threat assessment? Or are they so desperate to shoot someone that they just wanna blast some kid and say they feared for their lives?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      Do none of these idiots have any real threat assessment?

      More that they’ve got a house full of guns, an ear full of “crime wave!!!” media, and a not insignificant amount of mental illness.

      “If someone rings my doorbell and runs away, they’re targeting my house for a burglary” is a thing lots of people unironically believe.

      Or are they so desperate to shoot someone that they just wanna blast some kid and say they feared for their lives?

      Definitely elements of that, too. But in the sense of feeling like they want to be the hero of a story they’ve heard on Talk Radio.

      A lot of these people are legit delusional.

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        “If someone rings my doorbell and runs away, they’re targeting my house for a burglary” is a thing lots of people unironically believe.

        God help me, I’m going to lose it with the next idiot that I hear this shit from. My parents constantly regurgitate simulacrums of that line. Somehow we’ve moved on foolish grans mass spamming the emails about people putting tags on your car at the gas station to follow you home… but it’s ‘moved on’ to the insidious new middle-aged twats on facebook losing their minds about shit like kids being kidnapped from their school by secret russian/chinese/iranian/democrat black-ops teams.

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      7 days ago

      None whatsoever. They’re bloodthirsty savages. Itching for any excuse to murder someone.

      I give it 2 weeks before the shooter is being interviewed on Fox. Whinging about how he’s really the victim of some nebulous “woke mob” that drug him online for murdering a child.

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      As someone raised by conservatives, it’s #2. They fantasize about being in a scenario where they have to defend their home with a gun. It’s a core component of being a conservative.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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      I think they are just stupid, scared people who watch Fox 24/7 and really think bad things are happening everywhere. Or to put it more succinctly, they are little bitches.

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      7 days ago

      Or are they so desperate to shoot someone that they just wanna blast some kid and say they feared for their lives?

      It is exactly this. These are deeply violent people who are actively seeking any reason to hide behind the excuse of self defense.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      There is something ingrained in certain people I’m finding. I’m a big dude who can handle himself if need be, but I also have guns cause the state does too. Moved from a more liberal area to this purple pearl in a very red area. Had a girl over one night and heard some rustling outside the door. I put on pants and went to go check it out and she asked me why I wasn’t bringing my gun. Jackie, my sister in Christ, we are outside the downtown area of a fairly safe little tourist trap. At the absolute worst it could be is a small black bear that I just scream at. But I’m not going to jail for firing a gun near downtown(although that doesn’t tend to stop anyone else around here).

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      Or are they so desperate to shoot someone that they just wanna blast some kid and say they feared for their lives?

      Too many people are kept in check by fear of getting caught by the law and will turn into savage beasts at the slightest opportunity.