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?
My mom got really paranoid when they installed a speed bump in front of her house in the lower-middle income neighborhood she used to live in because it would make all the thieves drive by slower and think about all the stuff inside that they could steal.
One time my aunt got mad that the city had to cut down a small line of trees because of possible fires or something. Maybe it was the roots were getting into the road? I don’t remember. She wasn’t mad because she liked the trees, but because it meant that several houses were now visible from the main street, as in, now visible from the poor/black side of town. My aunt said the same thing as your mom, that potential thieves driving home could now see the roofs of white people’s homes and figure out which they wanted to steal from.
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.
these people should be removed from society and helped
that is a dangerous level of paranoia
From experience this seems like the floor for paranoia required to be a white person in American suburbs where nothing happens. Re-eduaction can’t come fast enough for these people.
This is why I don’t read Nextdoor anymore. I live in a boring, safe suburban neighborhood, and all I read on there were people freaking out about nothing, propagandizing themselves and each other. Fascist hellscape, Nextdoor is.
Yeah, my sister.
She lives in an “upper middle class” yuppie suburb where we grew up, but I moved away years ago.
She gives me updates on what it’s like, and she describes it like it’s mad max now. She says there are bands of roving weirdos, and there are now no-go zones that the police have declared lawless.
I ask my brother what she’s on about, and he has no idea. I went to visit recently and it seemed same as it ever was lol
Conservative media really do be melting brains
Actively rewriting people’s realities as they’re experiencing it. A family member of mine recently went up to Seattle and described it in post-apocalyptic terms too. Said there’s open warfare in the streets and people shooting heroin in broad daylight. Said he saw no less than a dozen burning buildings on an average day. I went on youtube later that day to watch some recent videos of people around Seattle and it seemed like any other American urban area. Seemed kind of nice actually.
One of my cousins did a roadtrip back in like 2017 and claimed he got stopped by “antifa checkpoints” several times throughout Colorado lmao. Just utter derangement, telling exaggerated campfire stories that wouldn’t be believed in middle school
I don’t even know what to call this. White people wanting to feel like they’re on the bad end of the stick? Hallucinations? A strong desire to do racist pogroms on false pretenses of riots?
I have to imagine it’s some kind of coping strategy for precarity. People in the suburbs are scared to death of losing what they have and having to live among the lower classes. So they project these fears as poor violent minorities coming to take what they have as opposed to the accurate view of economic decline that’s actually pushing them to live among the lower class
anxiety about class precarity is as old as the ascendance of the bourgeoisie. a hereditary nobility always had their place simply by birth—even if they became cash-poor, but a burgher losing their wealth forfeits their social standing. early bourgeois-ruled places like Venice actually recreated that hereditary security with a hereditary citizenship that was frozen and required legislative approval to admit new persons/families
claimed he got stopped by “antifa checkpoints”
What in the entire fuck? Was he just making shit up or did he really believe that? Like the cops from Kansas or whatever glass-flat shitholes abut on Colorado are notorious for robbing people with colorado plates, but antifas?
I think people like my cousins are in a constant competition with other paranoid conservatives to tell the best spooky campfire story.
For whether or not he actually believes it, it seems like a lot of their beliefs exist in a liminal position between legitimate belief and making shit up. They make stuff up until they believe it. It’s like Qanon. Whether or not they believe in the tiny, granular details doesn’t matter because they believe in the general vibe of the thing. Antifa checkpoints exist to my cousin because they sound like they’re supposed to be a thing, not because he actually experienced them
A family member of mine recently went up to Seattle and described it in post-apocalyptic terms too. Said there’s open warfare in the streets and people shooting heroin in broad daylight. Said he saw no less than a dozen burning buildings on an average day.
I mean it does suck in Seattle, but that’s because everything’s fucking expensive, there’s no bathrooms, has a shitty nightlife, feels weirdly hostile to pedestrians, and is fucking expensive. Like even Sacramento felt like it was a better city even though it’s roughly similar in experience to me just more hot and worse tap water.
Maybe I should just say it sucks living down in the lower 48 and I’m happy enough up where I’m at.
One of my coworkers tells me he always pulls out his Glock to check the corners when he comes home in the evening
Propagandizing yourself daily lmao.
The only thing I worry about is if shit ever hits the fan and THEY have weapons while I don’t. But I also do not trust myself to own guns.
My house actually was invaded once though… By a 5 year old autistic child
My home was once invaded by a dorky little beagle who was famous across the neighborhood for escaping his yard all the time
With me it was our neighbor’s terrier. Our door was open and he just waltzed in like he owned the place, had a little look around and left because I was outside and he wanted me to pet him.
My coworker went on to say he has a Glock in the first place because they don’t have safeties, so he can “shoot first.” I guess disengaging a safety wastes precious milliseconds. (For people who don’t know guns, handguns normally have a button on the side that will prevent the trigger from firing, so you can safely keep it in a holster or something. Glocks don’t have this button and it’s stupid)
Glocks have what’s called a trigger safety. It’s a little lever on the trigger that has to be depressed for the gun to fire. It’s very effective; Unless someone deliberately puts their finger on the trigger and pulls its extremely unlikely for the gun to go off if it’s dropped or in any kind of accident. Modern guns rarely if ever go off if they’re dropped. Many can not due to their design.
The advantage of the trigger safety over other safeties is that it prevents the gun from going off accidentally while allowing the user to fire. This solves the problem of having to actuate a small button or lever during a stressful situation. It has an additional advantage - The trigger safety is always on. If the gun is cocked and ready to fire then the trigger safety is active. With a conventional safety once you turn it off it remains off until you turn it on again. The trigger safety re-sets as soon as you take your finger off the trigger. If you drop the gun after firing the trigger safety is on and will prevent the gun going off accidentally.
Safeties are entirely intended to prevent dangerous accidents. To prevent a gun from being used it’s generally best to get a cable-lock that threads up through the magazine well, then through the action, and it then locked in place. This prevents the action from being closed which in turn prevents the gun firing. There’s way way to get around this without opening the lock or cutting the cable.
Of course it’s a Glock, if it’s not a Glock with these people it’s a Sig. Just the most aggressively bland taste in firearms that lack manual safeties
yeah seems like the manual thumb safety is more about preventing negligent shots by careless people honestly
I am 100% convinced he will one day shoot someone by accident. That’s just a dangerous way to be
I am absolutely serious about home defence, that’s why I’ve fortified it using a defence in depth strategy. While any intruders are mired in the landmines and barbed wire belts strewn across the street my outer perimeter I can launch flanking counter attacks from my neighbours garage which I have annexed to improve my defensive posture. Should these counter attacks fail to repel the intruders I am prepared to fall back to my second line of defence in the entryway, ready to call down artillery on the pre-sighted grid squares in my front lawn. My final line of defence is centred around my garden shed, which I have fortified and surrounded with further minefields. I have attempted to expand my defence lines into the park behind my house but lack the force necessary to confront the city in open battle.
