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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

People getting stabbed with wives instead of knives now πŸ˜”

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

this is why we need to regulate wives

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah, fuck men though, they can stab as many men as they want, as long as they're in a gay relationship.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I'd say we should just outright make homicide illegal so we don't have to be sexist about it.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

In any given year, more than half of all gun deaths are suicides, so really it should read...

Go back inside

Shoot self

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be British

Go to the United States

Don't Get Blown up in a Cybertruck

Don't Get Shot up in a mass shooting

Don't Get Robbed shirtless by a home invasion

Don't Get Scammed broke by a crypto-coin shill

Do find the one person in the entire country who insists on doing knife crime

Marry her

Get stabbed to death

Post about it on 4chan

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fake. Anon doesn’t have a wife. That would involve talking to a woman.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

And gay, for he got impaled from behind.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

See that is the problem.

All gun owners should be completely cautious and safe. That is why you background check them thoroughly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Maybe it was justified, let's hear her out

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francine_Hughes

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

So she was "standing her ground?"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

most gun owners are safe and cautious

I know some of the most brain dead takes that my friends with guns do. Some gun owners are absolutely crazy when it comes to gun safety and storage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

you should bully them for it, they deserve it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The number of people who openly admit to coworkers that they have couch guns scares me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately yes.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because what's better than knowing your balls could get blown at any moments while binging Netflix.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, press x to doubt

Some are extremely careful. Way too many(majority , from personal experience) are "meh" at best, and a smaller part (but still way too many) are just using guns as a baby rattle (figure of speech, though I've seen things)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have a friend who has a quick access weapon for defense. But he keeps the AR in the corner of his bedroom, a loaded magazine, not chambered. But has a curious 2 year old in his house. And that's just one instance from a single friend. And he rationalizes it, saying he keeps the door locked. (Which isn't true because the time we came over and noticed it, the door was wide open)

And this is coming from me, who fairly recently got into firearms and got my CCW. Sometimes the lack of priority for safety just leaves me astounded. This is why statistics happen.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

When there are millions of gun owners even a few percent using guns for β€œbaby rattles” is still a very significant number.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have known a number gun enthusiasts. About half of them have been safe with them. Only one shot themself.

The numbers aren't great.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Could just be a story about a man getting pegged by his wife

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The amount of guns mechanics find just casually sitting around in customers cars is appalling. They get stolen because people leave guns in their cars and used for crimes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whenever I see cars/trucks with gun stickers on the back, I assume they are rolling loot drops. Ain't no way I'm advertising what guns I have. Also not leaving my guns unattended anywhere. I spent too much on that shit to leave it out for somebody else to take.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Exceptions are rare enough that there’s only like one mass shooting a week!

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

In 2022 or 2023 there was one mass shooting for every day of the year. Anon was simply in the wrong place.

https://www.massshootingtracker.site/

Looks like they're on track for another great year of mass shootings!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (7 children)

i mean, the US is also fucking huge compared to somewhere like europe, so that "wrong place" is the entire continental US.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I mean, most of those are gang shootings, no? Those are always a bit disingenuous to call mass shootings.

People overstate the danger.

(And 90 in a year is still a small % of people when we have 300 million, if you look at %)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So... I'm curious why you think gang shootings shouldn't count or is a bit disingenuous to include.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

because it's a statistical anomaly, it's like including capital punishment in homicide numbers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

It's disingenuous because they're not everywhere. They're in a specific subset of high crime areas.

It's a very own problem in its own right, but when including in a statistic used to represent all of America as shooting people up is what makes it a poor and often intentionally misleading statistic as compared to how safe you actually are in the average area

They're also typically more targeted, less random

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In 2022 or 2023 there was one mass shooting for every day of the year. Anon was simply in the wrong place

One? In both years, there have been two shootings for every year according to your source. Jesus christ!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I remembered a different source. The one I linked uses a different definition for "mass shooting": it counts events where at least four victims are dead or wounded, and includes cases of domestic violence.

Rest assured, the number is abnormally high for a supposedly "developed" country, whatever criteria you apply.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

90 mass shootings in 101 days! At least 11 days without one, way to go USA.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah but there's like 50 weeks in a year

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eeeuuuugggghhhh, my wife is a reeeeaaaaaal wife, I’ll tell ya

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You wouldn't know her, she buys her knives from a different store

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well he did deserve it by wearing that hat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fedora with safari flaps in the back

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

That sounds fedorable.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Confederate flag wifebeater

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh, I thought it would've been the one about the fishes

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