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Do you know anyone obsessed with home invasion? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Every chud in my life is obsessed with someone breaking into their house and the situation being resolved with the discharge of a firearm. And these are people living in low crime areas out in the suburbs, with no pedestrians. It's frustrating to talk with these people since their whole worldview is a racist panic over some imagined brown interloper invading their white fortresses.

One of my coworkers tells me he always pulls out his Glock to check the corners when he comes home in the evening. Another has a CCTV system and an AR15 by his bed. I personally don't own a gun anymore because I don't trust myself with one, and chuds will ask me what I'll do if some mentally unwell person high on amphetamines decided to enter my apartment. I guess I'd leave or call an ambulance? It seems so unlikely of a scenario that even if I had a firearm I probably wouldn't use it right, or even register this person as a threat quickly enough to do a John Wick style takedown.

How many home invasions are actually stopped this way? Do chuds all think they're Robocop?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

My dad installed a CCTV system that cost several hundred dollars.

He lives in a gated community.

At the end of the street, with other houses that have boats outside while my parents' has nothing that would call the attention.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

He lives in a gated community.

maybe his threat model is teens with parents incapable of loving them

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cameras are such a weird phenomena.

Like great, you got blurry footage of someone walking back and forth. Now you can give your blurry footage to teh cops, who won't do anything with it bc they don't give a shit.

idk, home security is dumb. Get a reinforced kick-plate, put things you'd prefer not to be stolen out of sight, that's pretty much all you can do. All the rest of it is just hyping yourself up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

We have cameras to see if the mail has come yet, which of us moved the big broom, check in on things while we're out of town, etc. They can be useful even if you're not in a risky neighborhood.

ETA: We have no firearms, because we don't have any interest in maintaining the proficiency necessary to ensure that we don't accidentally kill each other. Even aside from that, we have no interest in hunting, and the likelihood that a gun would ever make a positive difference during some remotely-possible home invasion is basically unmeasurable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Cameras for packages is a good and legit usage, i like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nothing is wrong with a camera system. I believe everybody should get one. Given that it can't be accessed willy nilly by whoever they bought it from.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I mean, if you have nothing better to do with your money, sure. But I think it's a waste when you already live in a gated community. I disapprove of the concept of gated communities in general, and I don't think they really even make your home much safer (home invasions are vanishingly rare, thieves will always rather steal from a store with cash than a home).