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I don't get it... Why would your default impulse when an unknown person approaches your house be to shoot them?
by kstenerud 7y ago
I don't get it... Why would your default impulse when an unknown person approaches your house be to shoot them?
- brazzy 7y agoBecause the NRA has drilled it into people that "home invasions" by people who want to kill you are an everyday threat you need to be prepared to.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoIt happens "somewhere" everyday but the odds of it happening to any given individual are low. That said, we still have smoke/CO detectors and fire extinguishers in our houses and houses burning down is as rare or rarer.
- brazzy 7y agoThat is ridiculously wrong. There are about half a million structure fires in the USA per year (source: https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-fire https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-fire), compared to about 17,000 murders, of which those committed in the course of a home invasion are most likely a small fraction.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoThere's a good chance Ice-T was just made uncomfortable by the stranger approaching his house and used an attention-grabbing way to express it publicly. He may have also felt that this was the sort of thing that would boost his public persona.
- kstenerud 7y agoI... just... I mean... I'm not American, so it's difficult to wrap my head around either of these concepts.
- WalterGR 7y agoI'm not American, so it's difficult to wrap my head around either of these concepts. Which concept confuses you? That a person could find the behavior of someone on their property suspicious, or an entertainer exaggerating something to enhance their public image?