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It was just a little baby GTA
by victor9000 4mo ago
It was just a little baby GTA
- ProllyInfamous 4mo agoMy state recently passed a law (similar to Texas') which allows people to defend with lethal force certain property (beyond just their vehicle, which was already allowed). Tennessee-wide, it goes into effect July 1st – and is long-overdue. I live in a working-class neighborhood and we do whatever we can to keep the trouble elsewhere (i.e. not here). Wish guns didn't exist, but until they don't stay safe thugz.
- jeffbee 4mo agoWhat's your hypothesis on why Texas has a much higher auto theft rate than Tennessee, given that they long had the policy you seem to believe is a remedy?
- warumdarum 4mo agoEh, texas gets all that borderly goodness the liberal north dishes out so freely, but avoids for itself ?
- jeffbee 4mo agoI'm just wondering why this Wild West stuff seems to be neither effective, since Texas has auto theft rates well above national averages, nor necessary, considering that Florida lacks the statute and has auto theft rates well below national averages.
- emodendroket 4mo agoIt doesn't work but it does let people fantasize about being allowed to shoot someone to death legally.
- warumdarum 4mo agoWell there are working alternatives to that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador
- emodendroket 4mo agoYes, I suppose we could in fact do corrupt bargains with criminal groups and then throw a bunch of people in jail without worrying too much about whether they're guilty or not. Bukele isn't the first person in the world to think of that. Mussolini had a similar approach.
- ProllyInfamous 4mo agoI have actually killed, before. Given similar circumstances: would, again. I am a free man, walking among you; they let me carry a gun, still. Self defense ought'a be allowable, and is a deterrent (even if only "statistically" ... which it is). Recent enhancing legal protections represent the shifting tides as our economy wavers into "survival" mode – ¿perhaps a Depression 3.0? – certainly it's bleak here in the workingclasshood. Do you have any questions for your reality shaping, this morning?
- emodendroket 4mo agoI can't say someone gleeful and proud of having killed is exactly changing my mind.
- ProllyInfamous 4mo agoAny parent would have been proud of what I've accomplished. Do you actually have any questions, or just angry?
- emodendroket 4mo agoNo, I don't have any questions, nor did I ever claim to. Fishing for questions was your idea.
- bombcar 4mo agoFlorida is surrounded by ocean and you can’t drive stolen cars to Cuba. Texas is bordered by Mexico and you can drive stolen cars to Mexico. Also if we’re talking gundefend shouldn’t we be comparing carjacking stats?
- cucumber3732842 4mo agoAfter adjusting for socioeconomic factors auto theft in the US is pretty much a straight gradient based on "how quickly can it be in mexico" Arizona, New Mexico and Socal have pretty high auto theft rates as well.
- emodendroket 4mo agoSo do Washington, DC and Colorado but those don't really seem to fit your theory.
- ProllyInfamous 4mo agoThis would be my answer, having grown up in Texas just hours from the border. ---- Now that I live 1,000+ miles-more, inland, I definitely keep more of these opinions to myself – but decades of Texceptionalism (indoctrination, the Tejas way) definitely affects one's opinion on proximity to Mexico.
- tsss 4mo agoWell, for one Texas has a port and a border with Mexico. Car theft is almost exclusively for export to other countries, particularly South America and Africa.
- emodendroket 4mo agoYou can see how seriously stopping that crime is being taken by the anecdote I'm replying to, can't you?