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?

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    My dad installed a CCTV system that cost several hundred dollars.

    He lives in a gated community.

    At the end of the street, with other houses that have boats outside while my parents’ has nothing that would call the attention.

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      1 year ago

      Cameras are such a weird phenomena.

      Like great, you got blurry footage of someone walking back and forth. Now you can give your blurry footage to teh cops, who won’t do anything with it bc they don’t give a shit.

      idk, home security is dumb. Get a reinforced kick-plate, put things you’d prefer not to be stolen out of sight, that’s pretty much all you can do. All the rest of it is just hyping yourself up.