The world has gone to crap and there's little we can do to fix it.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by TKB

How does that have anything to do with being a “badass” what moron would just sit there while their house is being broken into or family members assaulted if they had the proper means for protection.

It's because you and others of your ilk phrase things in such a cringey way, like, "staring down the barrel of a double barrel shot gun..."

I feel like that's meant to sound tough and intimidating, but it comes across as you being a scaredy-cat. Frightened about home intruders to the extent that you have a shot gun and ammunition close enough to your person within your own home that you'd be able to grab the weapon and load it from a dead sleep to the time it takes a guy to kick in your front door and walk to your room? Give me a break. If you're storing your weapon properly and safely, there's no way.

Plus, you're more likely to blow the brains out of your wife who ran out to get something from her car in the middle of the night or a concerned neighbour knocking on your door to let you know your eavestrough is draining into your foundation.

I'd think building a tornado shelter, having a generator, storing food and water, etc. are all more prudent preps in Calgary than spending even 0.00000004 seconds worrying about a gunman busting into your house. And the hubris and naivity of thinking you'd John Wick the bad guys is actually hilarious. I love it.

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by TKB

How does that have anything to do with being a “badass” what moron would just sit there while their house is being broken into or family members assaulted if they had the proper means for protection.

Maybe I'm naïve, but do these situations ever actually occur, especially in suburban Calgary? I get that a thief breaking into a garage when no one's around is common. But do thieves actually break into houses and assault families, unless it's a targeted attack?

I feel like these are made up situations by pro gun people thinking Hollywood movies are real life.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Non targeted armed house robberies in Canada with family home? Don't have the stats handy but I'd be willing to bet you're into lotto type odds.

And the chances of armed break-in criminals actually using said firearms against innocent families in those small percentage of cases is even more minuscule...unless of course a home owner starts screaming and pointing their own firearm, creating panic and stress for everyone brandishing guns. Then the chances of firearm discharge with wife and kids present probably goes way the **** up.

Or maybe the homeowner shouts a perfectly worded movie style line in relaxing but confident tone, with a calmly held gun in the dark, while the armed robbers stare on with wonder and mutual respect, lowering their weapons and awaiting the police arrival.

Break and Enter style robberies are alarmingly common in the country. That said, very few target the household, most target outbuildings. I would be shocked if these people did not bring a weapon of some description.

However, I don't think shooting these people would be a solution. The solution is giving all people a chance to make an honest living via a strong and inclusive education system.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

Maybe I'm naïve, but do these situations ever actually occur, especially in suburban Calgary? I get that a thief breaking into a garage when no one's around is common. But do thieves actually break into houses and assault families, unless it's a targeted attack?

I feel like these are made up situations by pro gun people thinking Hollywood movies are real life.

It is clearly a weird murder fantasy someone has while listing to CJay 92 on Deerfoot.

[CroFlames]

I feel like there is one of those old timey lawyer scales in my head and I waffle between feeling positive and negative from day to day. The individual "weights" get added throughout the day. I have a happy marriage and three healthy kids, that's a positive weight. Oh no, one of the kids looks like he might have a medical condition, negative weight. My daughter loves soccer and is excelling at it, positive weight. Goddam air conditioner is going to cost me $5k, negative weight. The goes on with both minor and major things.

I actively try to think positively, but tbh, the Russia business and climate change really gets me anxious when I think of my kids' futures (and all kids' futures). I try reminding myself that the World is in a better place compared to any point in history, but the nagging thought of climate catastrophe and mad men with nukes sometimes tips the scale and bottoms out and it is tough to rebalance.

Sometimes shooting the #### on CP helps, like that ridiculous dog thread. Need more of those.

[Envitro]

The last page of this thread is so cringey with weird misconceptions about gun owners.

You make us all look like this guy:


When in fact when most of us are like this guy:

[Fuzz]

Hold up now, who makes who look like what? It's the gun nuts who expose themselves as such who are painting their own picture, not us.

Originally Posted by TKB

Agreed it won’t make a difference if you aren’t home and someone breaks in. I can guarantee that it would make a difference if I was home and heard someone breaking in though. Staring down the barrel of a double barrel shot gun is going to get anybody’s ass in gear to GTFO.

I'll give you props for using an image of Burt from Tremmors though, good stuff!

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

I feel like there is one of those old timey lawyer scales in my head and I waffle between feeling positive and negative from day to day. The individual "weights" get added throughout the day. I have a happy marriage and three healthy kids, that's a positive weight. Oh no, one of the kids looks like he might have a medical condition, negative weight. My daughter loves soccer and is excelling at it, positive weight. Goddam air conditioner is going to cost me $5k, negative weight. The goes on with both minor and major things.

I actively try to think positively, but tbh, the Russia business and climate change really gets me anxious when I think of my kids' futures (and all kids' futures). I try reminding myself that the World is in a better place compared to any point in history, but the nagging thought of climate catastrophe and mad men with nukes sometimes tips the scale and bottoms out and it is tough to rebalance.

Sometimes shooting the #### on CP helps, like that ridiculous dog thread. Need more of those.

Yeah, it has been a grind the past couple years. The covid rollercoaster wasn't that fun, either.

My big one is the hamster-on-a-wheel feeling of groundhog daying through the workday week in and week out. It's been frustrating lately. I wake up everyday and mutter to myself, 'are you fataing kidding me?' Slave away the best decades of our lives to squirrel away money that we'll:

A. Hopefully have enough to ride us through old age.
B. Not waste so much time saving only to die at like 57 with a pile of money in the bank for somebody else to enjoy.

Weed helps.

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yeah, it has been a grind the past couple years. The covid rollercoaster wasn't that fun, either.

My big one is the hamster-on-a-wheel feeling of groundhog daying through the workday week in and week out. It's been frustrating lately. I wake up everyday and mutter to myself, 'are you fataing kidding me?' Slave away the best decades of our lives to squirrel away money that we'll:

A. Hopefully have enough to ride us through old age.
B. Not waste so much time saving only to die at like 57 with a pile of money in the bank for somebody else to enjoy.

Weed helps.

Literally said this exact thing this morning dragging my ass out of bed to go to work. Mumbled to my wife to go buy some lottery tickets because I'm done with this ####.

Just want to work on projects at home and hang out with my kids and buddies.

[Envitro]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Hold up now, who makes who look like what? It's the gun nuts who expose themselves as such who are painting their own picture, not us.



I'll give you props for using an image of Burt from Tremmors though, good stuff!

Well, at least there's some common ground here

[Cappy]

I lived in the burbs years ago with a roommate. we had a walkout basement where my roommate lived. He woke up to someone checking the basement door to see if it was unlocked (it wasnt). He turned the light on and the guy ran away.

I would assume most break-ins when people are home are typically like this. No need to have them stare down the barrel of my shotgun.

I can count on two hands the amount of times i have thought someone was breaking in only to find out it was the roommate, a buddy of his i didnt know was there, a girl etc.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Envitro

The last page of this thread is so cringey with weird misconceptions about gun owners.

You make us all look like this guy:

When in fact when most of us are like this guy:

Coming from the gun owner with the most cringe gun takes on CP, that's gotta be a complement.

I think you're confused though. Nobody is making you look like the guy in image one, that's just how some of you sound. Trust everyone, we know you look like the stock image of a dorky guy from the suburbs.

[CroFlames]

I just wish gun guys didn't make guns their entire identity. I like shooting as much as the next guy but I don't have sex with the goddam thing.

[btimbit]

I love guns, own several, anyone that says they're there for home defense or protection is out to lunch and probably dresses up in a costume they think looks cool when they go shooting, not realizing the rest of us at the range are laughing at them

"Staring down the barrel of a shotgun" get real, nerd

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

The solution is giving all people a chance to make an honest living via a strong and inclusive education system.

While giving people a better education would no doubt help increase the likelihood of an individual getting a better paying job, there are only so many good paying jobs to go around so you inevitably end up with overqualified people who are working lower wage jobs because that’s all they can find.

If only we could come up with some way to make those lower paying jobs better and that make that easier for people to do than obtaining a gun.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Cappy

I lived in the burbs years ago with a roommate. we had a walkout basement where my roommate lived. He woke up to someone checking the basement door to see if it was unlocked (it wasnt). He turned the light on and the guy ran away.

I would assume most break-ins when people are home are typically like this. No need to have them stare down the barrel of my shotgun.

I can count on two hands the amount of times i have thought someone was breaking in only to find out it was the roommate, a buddy of his i didnt know was there, a girl etc.

I once rented an apartment where there were constantly people trying to come in. The person that lived there before apparently had an open door policy with friends and he didn't tell them he was moving. The only problem is that he was apparently a drug dealer and the people coming by were wasted. I had one girl trying to fight me because she didn't believe the former resident wasn't home. I had to call the cops on that one. For the first few months, I would always see footprints in the snow going around to all the windows. It's a pretty unnerving thing to wake up to.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I once rented an apartment where there were constantly people trying to come in. The person that lived there before apparently had an open door policy with friends and he didn't tell them he was moving. The only problem is that he was apparently a drug dealer and the people coming by were wasted. I had one girl trying to fight me because she didn't believe the former resident wasn't home. I had to call the cops on that one. For the first few months, I would always see footprints in the snow going around to all the windows. It's a pretty unnerving thing to wake up to.

See, if you'd had a gun, you could have said something cool, like "Back up or I'll fill your ass so full of lead God'll use you as a pencil!" or maybe "Listen lady, I got ten rounds locked and loaded in your direction, all I need is one reason!"

Lots of potential to be cool, there. Kind of missed out.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

I just wish gun guys didn't make guns their entire identity. I like shooting as much as the next guy but I don't have sex with the goddam thing.

That's my biggest annoyance.

I know plenty of people who own guns, are interested in sport shooting, and I've gone sport shooting with them. It's fun, I'm awful and can't hit a bloody thing, but it's a fun way to spend an afternoon with friends. I find nothing about their enjoyment of their firearms particularly offensive or off-putting.

It's the ones who make it their identity and get obnoxious about it. I have a cousin in Winnipeg like that, it is impossible to have a normal conversation with him. Of course, it also correlates with him becoming the sort of person who makes their Facebook profile photo a half-and-half of the Canadian maple leaf and an AR-15 with a "F--K TRUDEAU" photo border, and insists that Canadians have a constitutionally-enshrined right to bear arms.

[jayswin]

Are you telling me that gun nuts and **** Trudeau dude bros overlap on the venn diagram. I am in shock!