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

submitted 10 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] 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

yea, my dad my entire life lol. He has one of the most advanced cases of suburban psychosis i've ever seen. He came to help my partners mom with some stuff and they live a normal lower-mid middle class neighborhood and his ass was freaking out like someone was gonna just walk up and break into his car. (we've always been poor btw, their neighborhood is way nicer than anything i grew up in)

When we were growing up he picked a closet and removed the doorknob and replaced it with a deadbolt and would stash shit in there. Anytime we went anywhere hed make me put all my guitars in there lol.

He didn't keep an ar15 by his bed but he did have a 22 rifle.

The last house we lived in together had french doors that he'd always bar with wood and i remember him yelling at me up and down bc i left the house one day without setting up his elaborate jerry-rigged system of wood boards to keep people out 🙄

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

You mock the french door with wooden barricade, but how many times was that house broken into?

If 0: it worked!

If more than 0: think how much worse it would have been without the barricade!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

The virgin deadbolt closet vs the chad drywall knife