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Originally Posted by Jordan!
Easy to say living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I'm on the side of the protests. I'm not a gun toting trumpkin. I haven't brought my guns to the range in years and yeah. If there is the possibility of a roving band of people wanting to break into homes to punish the "good hoods" then the door is locked for your protection and making sure that I can effectively protect my ####ing newborn an wife is important to me.
But keep sitting on your mantle in the great white north..
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It should be easy to say no matter where you are, if you're a reasonable, rational person.
"I'm concerned about escalating violence in my community....better add guns to the mix"
Does that sound like a reasonable position? If people come around to your neighborhood to "Punish the good hoods", do you think you'll improve the situation with a gun?
I own a lot of guns, and I can tell you with 100% certainty that if I was concerned about people rampaging through my neighborhood, I wouldn't be cleaning them, I'd be making sure they were locked up and as secure as they could be, because the aren't going to help the situation in any way. If a mob rolled through my neighborhood and smashed my windows or burned my car, I'm smart enough to know that there's not much I can do about it, because it's not worth shooting anyone over, and I'm smart enough to realize that the best way to make sure my wife is safe, is to not be the guy waving a gun around an angry mob.
You don't have to be a trumkin to have a deluded sense of importance/fantasy about being the hero with a gun, and that's the kind of attitude that is just more gasoline on the fire.
You want to make sure your family is safe? Make sure your guns are properly/safely stored, and don't do anything to escalate what to this point has been a bunch of property damage.