Maybe Threads doesn’t, what about Meta?

Nope, it makes you less safe, too, especially if the threat is closer than 25 feet. They have the opportunity to wrest the gun from your control and use it against you.

I’m still going to stand by my previous comment.

My point was that for small arms to be used as an effective protection against threat, they must be used before the threat is imminent, i.e., in a “first strike” offensive capacity.

While it’s possible that an open carried firearm might have a deterrent effect, its presence makes every situation into “one with a gun in it,” which is necessarily less safe than one without a gun in it.

Care to elaborate?

Eating salt and vinegar chips is the biological equivalent of scrubbing your digestive tract with a wire brush, and this is exactly what I deserve.

And in this specific case, none of the workers were street-level, getting into randos cars. That doesn’t necessarily mean that all of the workers were willing participants, but I would bet that with the level of clientele involved, almost all were.

More than twice. I assume you’re referring to the US Civil War and January 6, 2021.

• The former colonies after the American Revolution only barely came together under the Articles of Confederation, which themselves were insufficient to hold the nation together.
• Icky compromises were made in order to form the US Constitution, and those compromises arguably set the long stage for the later Civil War.
• In the 1940s, there was a push for fascism in the US.
• McCarthyism in the 1950s and continuing anti-Communist sentiment through the 1960s did a lot of work to silence any opposition
• In the wake of the 2000 presidential election, there was the Brooks Brothers Riot, that put an end to vote counting in Florida, handing the election to Bush.
• After 9/11, the PATRIOT Act created a surveillance state that we still labor under.

I’m sure there are more.

For a gun to be effective against an attacker, that attacker needs to be about 25 feet away or farther when you decide to shoot them. Closer than that, it’s a melee before you get an accurate shot off.

This means that you need to escalate a situation to gunplay way before you’re in actual physical danger, in most cases.

Unless you’re walking along brandishing your weapon, in order to be ready for a possible threat. This in itself escalates any situation you’re in to “one with a gun in it,” whether you’re ever in any danger or not.

Small arms are offensive weapons. They cannot be used for defense without making otherwise safe conditions unsafe, or by escalating a possibly threatening situation into a definitely dangerous one.

That’s how campaign speeches work. There are speechwriters, and they don’t write a whole brand new speech for every campaign stop.

It pleases me to know that Kamala Harris lives rent-free in his head.

Zelenskyy meeting with Trump is just Zelenskyy meeting with Putin with extra steps.

He sure knew the situation when he was calling Robinson “Martin Luther King times two.”

Is it just me, or is it objectively funny that Trump’s campaign appears to be easily hackable?

New band name: Sticky Anus Juice

Magnavox Odyssey

The styling of pretty much all American cars in the mid to late 60s was incredible. Literally pick anything, and it’s awesome.

Of course the perennial misbehaver thinks that misbehavior should be rewarded.

I was thinking Buick Riviera, if they adopted the late 80s styling while keeping the early 80s size.

https://www.autoevolution.com/cars/buick-riviera-1986.html#agal_0

He’s using the “exclusive we.”

We must sometimes succumb to our basest instincts.