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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] 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I know a couple people personally who actually got home invaded.

One was a nightshifter who was asleep when people were robbing empty houses midday. He woke from dead asleep, was too tired to figure out how to fire his rifle, and just ended up clubbing the guy with it.

The other one was a dealer and his gf. He wasn't home, but would have been armed. She was home and got the shit beat out of her.

If he had been home, i'm convinced both of them would have been shot dead. Because the 6 guys who showed up definitely had a plan, were organized, and I saw them run off and they were all strapped.

Which is all just to say, it doesn't really go down like you expect it to. You're alllways gonna get caught backfooted because the invader will be prepared and you won't. The guys who fantasize about that never seem to get that reality.

Edit: also, so many of the steven segal wannabes who fantasize about this aren't even living in the sorts of areas where this actually happens.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I always think of that scene from snatch with these suburban gun guys who own weapons for “protection”

“Protection from who Tommy? Ze Germans?”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

I love that line and quote is constantly.