5 ms·
Concealed carry in the US is an awesome thing.
by shii 15y ago
Concealed carry in the US is an awesome thing.
- rwmj 15y agoYou're advocating shooting minor criminals?
- shii 15y agoNah, just a contingency plan to scare em off for a few days while you find new parking. Most thugs aren't going to risk their lives for a $30 parking ticket. They see a gun and they'll leave you alone for a little bit. Don't be surprised to see your car keyed up while you're gone though.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoPlease stop being an advocate for concealed carry, you are doing a terrible job.
- dirtbox 15y agoQuite. And what's to stop the 5 criminals from carrying guns as well? Pull a gun and get yourself killed in self defence. Great job, Captain America. This is why guns are a stupid thing to give to the public.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI would have said, "This is why guns are a stupid thing to give to stupid members of the public." There are people out there who can operate a concealed weapon safely. I'm probably not one of them, so I do not own or carry a gun.
- dirtbox 15y agoIn my eyes that makes you more responsible than those who do.
- hugh3 15y agoIndeed. I'm (somewhat) in favour of concealed carry, but based on observation it doesn't prevent folks from annoying other folks.
- jcampbell1 15y agoDon't gun toters have a saying like "If you are going to pull your weapon, you better be prepared to use it." Would you actually be willing to shoot someone over a parking pass? Or are you suggesting that this type of scam doesn't happen in the US at all because the risk of getting shot by running this racket are too high? I don't understand how guns are relevant here.
- wyclif 15y agoYou're assuming the owner has to be willing to draw. They don't-- it's the diffused cultural knowledge that someone might be carrying concealed. "An armed society is a polite society." Also the reason why happy slapping never caught on at all in the US, but was big in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Australia. But not the States!
- anon998877 15y agoIf we need mutual fear to assure civility, I'm pretty sure the term society does not apply anymore.
- hugh3 15y agoAll society is based on mutual fear.
- anon998877 15y agoCould you elaborate? Are also all communities based on mutual fear? And how much the concept of community is part of the concept of society?
- sp332 15y agoOne of the founding principles of the United States government was the Leviathan from Thomas Hobbes' book. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Leviathan_%28book%29 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Leviathan_%28... It's not just a book about government, it starts with a discussion of the nature of humanity, and then works out (using thought experiments) what a peaceful society would have to be like, given human nature.
- rl41 15y agoIndeed, if these entrepreneurs moved to the US then they could coerce the parking tickets with firearms. Efficiency would skyrocket! Take the internet tough guy act somewhere else...
- Lexarius 15y agoArmed robbery (via gun or otherwise) and a fairly fixed area of operation (near an appropriate parking lot) probably would not last very long. In some states, merely being in possession of a firearm while committing this sort of crime would up your jail time a bit even without drawing it, and even more so if you actively threatened someone with it.
- rl41 15y agoI realized this while typing, but decided to go with it just because it was in the spirit of mocking the comment I was replying to. Interesting bit about jail times being increased for possessing a firearm while committing a crime though.
- Lexarius 15y agoBoth FYI and to confirm to myself that I wasn't wishfully make that up, I looked up the policy for my home state: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/10-20-life/ http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/10-20-life/
- neworbit 15y agoIt stops people from selling you used parking tickets?