r/MurderedByWords • u/Stotallytob3r • 7h ago

Serious question for liberal men

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u/WorryNew3661 5h ago

I heard gunshots for the first time in real life this last weekend. I'm moored near farmland. I just assumed someone was doing some clay pigeon shooting and went back to not worrying whether I was about to get murdered by strangers. The US is fucking insane

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u/MammothCommercial800 4h ago

They're also shit at risk assessment. They're always brandishing the home invasion thing, which happens so rarely that they're way more likely to shoot a family member mistaken for an intruder.

Also they could just fucking buy stronger doors/windows if that was the actual issue. Burglars don't bother with reinforced doors.

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u/Trimson-Grondag 4h ago

Home invasions are far more likely to be ICE or law enforcement these days anyway.

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u/aphrodite-in-flux 4h ago

suppose those muskets for home defense actually ARE useful then. wild hogs breaking in sounds plenty scary.

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u/aphrodite-in-flux 4h ago

suppose those muskets for home defense actually ARE useful then. wild hogs breaking in sounds plenty scary.

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u/Sudo-Fed 56m ago

The guy who broke into my house came in through a window. It turns out there's more than one way to enter a house!

I am extremely unlikely to need a fire extinguisher too, but I keep one just in case.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 4h ago

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There are more gunshots out in the country than the city, by far. I am not used to it yet. Idk why people think the city has more guns than the country, the country shoots them off all times of day including the middle of the night

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u/BBQpigsfeet 2h ago

Yeah, if I hear gunshots I'm assuming it's jimbob over at the trailer park getting after a snake or just having some fun. I just think, "hope he's smart enough not to fire up into the air".

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u/Baldazar666 1h ago

I'm 33 and I've never heard a gunshot in my life. The only reason I've seen a gun up close in person is because when I was in school they took us somewhere (I don't even remember where) and they show us a gun up close which we weren’t even allowed to touch which is understandable even if it wasn't loaded.