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With your 40+ hands.
With his 40+ neighbors
This is videogame players logic.
"LOL! You gonna quadruple wield!"
Hell, most of my guns are for fun and learning gunsmithing. The vast majority are <$200 guns I bought to refurbish. A few are still in parts!
Don't be silly. I have a Colt .45 on my desk, a .45 1911 RIA on my nightstand and a pump shotgun to go with it. I'm capable with those 3, but I have no illusions of being able to effectively use one at 3AM. In any case, if I'm legally able to defend my family, why should I not take that option?
Call the cops instead? Tell me how much you trust the cops.
Must be fun to live in fear.
Another cute meme liberals put on us. I don't live in fear, because I don't have to.
Ever had a couple of drunk men try to rape your woman on a lonely sand bank? Ever had a bear wander in your house? Ever take a date downtown and see her fear with homeless addicts muttering to themselves, approaching her?
These aren't weird fantasies, these happened to me. I won't even get into the fascism that's clearly coming to America.
FFS, do you young libs not see that you're attacking an ally?! I'm on your side of damned near every political issue but this one. And even then, I can still argue liberal points. And no matter what I vote D. Idiots.
Women, POC and LGBT+ people are the largest gun purchasing demographic. Want to take a shot at them? Tell them to stop living in fantastical fear?
Not good enough? We doing fucking purity tests now? How very... conservative of you.
Anyhow, I'm going to a Pilipino gig downtown. Doesn't get much safer than hanging with that gang, great people! Combined, we're 104-yo and 240lbs., so I'm carrying my subcompact 9mm. And my Filipino gf? "Babe? You have your gun?"
You have three guns to protect yourself in case something bad happens. That sure sounds like living in fear to me.
I also have 3 fire extinguishers. Never had to use one. Probably never will.
Why do you need three fire extinguishers? Once again, sounds like living in fear. Most people have one at most.
Reading between the lines here, the guy has a big house
Oh, I'm sure he's rich. He has that mentality.
One in the kitchen.
One in my truck.
One at my camp in the swamp. (And no, I'm not rich. It's literally 2.5 acres of swamp. I got lucky enough to buy it.)
I would kill for a social media platform where posters have to be 25-yo+ to post. You children are fucking exhausting.
I'm 46. Maybe you're not very good at determining these things. Sort of like how you're not very good at determining how dangerous life is.