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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

"Hehe im so quirky and wacky" - The author

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

As the famous saying goes "stay strapped or get clapped"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i know it's compensation for a lot of people, but never thought about it being a literal replacement.

also the first speech bubble is Paris in the the spring

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay but the Foot Locker employee handbook CLEARLY prohibits carrying unofficial firearms in the front of the store.

Turn in your badge and standard issue rifle.

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

Luckily, though, it's clearly an official Foot Locker Nike pistol, so false alarm

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm all for trans rights, but as a non-American this is just...weird.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think the idea is basically:

Transphobe: "Tell me what genitals you have immediately."

Trans person: "No." *brandishes gun*

Pretty much just an extreme version of "mind your own business".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With a splash of “that’s not a knife.. THIS is a knife”

There’s something inherently satisfying about the oppressed/harassed/accosted person who whips out a bigger stick and shuts that shit down.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

It's like the author trying to make fun of anti-lgbt folks yet have them ask "which do you prefer" and also with the person having shitty concealed carry practice.

It's very much making fun of America of all side from what i can conclude.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's weird as an American, too.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess the point is... it doesn't matter so who cares. People used to think marrying outside your race was very very "weird".

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think marrying outside your race is the same thing as carrying a gun around pointed at your crotch.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Fuck me, hold tight. There's a gun in your trousers. What's a gun doing in your trousers? What's to stop it from blowing your bits off every time you sit down?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Things like this https://guerrilla-tactical.com/ and proper training. I used to daily carry as a queer person in a very conservative part of the US. But I no longer do as I no longer have the time to train like I used to and handgun skills are perishable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wow, what a fascist fucking group you subscribe to (Guerrilla Tactical)

Not only is their entire branding "guns for civilian warfare", but they sell Confederate Black Flag patches which originally meant "I don't take prisoners" ("I kill everyone, even if they surrender.").

Their slogan is "Stay Dangerous".

I don't know if you can signal "kill civilians, start a civil war" any harder...

Gun advocates stop advocating for White Supremacy challenge (impossible).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I mean come the fuck on they sell a patch with a KKK member in crosshairs and text saying not in our neighborhood. Also shirts saying keep racism out of gun culture, could you be anymore of a knee jerk asshole.

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

Bro their anarchist, that's a leftist group. Anarchist wave a black flag.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

I like my bottom surgery to come as a surprise

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Passive and active safeties, a trigger guard, a stiff trigger, and, for some, not having a round in the chamber.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That makes it even weirder. Why would you carry a gun at this level of quick access, if the gun itself is not quick access?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I'm not confident your interest is genuine, as your incredulity seems intent on maligning gun owners, but giving you the benefit of the doubt and for the edification of lemmy readers:

while carrying a gun at the front of your torso does generally provide slightly quicker drawing speed on trained individuals and all things being equal, the "level of quick access" is not usually the reason to prefer this style of carry. Rather, many that choose "appendix" carry tend to do so for ergonomics and comfort.

Also, "the gun itself is not quick access" is a misapprehension on your part; every feature I listed that you replied to, other than leaving the chamber empty, does not add any time to the deployment of the gun.

And if you are genuinely curious, you may be interested to know that because modern firearms are so incredibly safe (like modern cars - its the people using them that make them unsafe, unlike the guns and cars of the past which were much more inherently unsafe in design), leaving the chamber empty is usually not necessary or practiced.

They say that 50 years or so ago a method of drawing a pistol with an empty chamber and chambering a round in the same motion was made procedure by the IDF, as their weapons were coming from many disparate sources and shouldn't be trusted to have functional firing pin safeties, etc., so they were trained to carry them with an empty chamber. Nowadays, carrying, drawing, and charging a pistol on an empty chamber is known as "Israeli carry" or "Israeli draw."

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

A proper holster.

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