You just know he’s been waiting for a chance to play Seal Team Six for awhile now.
Presumably she’s old enough to have a phone and order an Uber. I’m guessing the father’s taking the phone away (nothing she did).
Are these people living in real dangerous areas or are they just convinced any unexpected car entering their driveway is out to murder them?
Second similar article in a short period, the other was a pizza delivery that went to the wrong address and got shot at.
they fantasize about shooting an invader so much that the first person they see becomes an opportunity. people have shot family members who come home in an unexpected manner or at an unexpected time. they own guns with the hope that one day they can kill someone and feel like Eastwood or whatever.
Someone who walks around with a hammer all day will eventually find a nail.
especially someone who fetishizes hammers
Hey I mean if you invested in a gun instead of supplying the needs of your family you’d also be looking for an opportunity to blast the damn thing
I guarantee that these people have never lived in the ghetto. People who pull guns on the regular have more morals and honor than these wannabe cowboys.
People who pull guns on the regular do not have morals and honour lmao
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I’ve had a gun pulled on me a couple times but I’ve always been able to level with the guy. The ghetto has a certain code of ethics. Folks who show respect don’t get shot.
Reading between the lines here, it sounds like what happened is the daughter left the house without permission and that pissed off daddy. So he decided to wait by the door with his gun until she came home and then shove a gun into the face of whatever guy dropped her off. I guess he forgot Uber exists. He probably thought a friend or boyfriend was fropping her off.
They THINK they live in a dangerous place. What they don’t understand is it’s technically true. They are the danger to the neighborhood.
Most liberals and progressives I know own AR-15’s because so many conservatives own them, only it’s the conservatives planning on rounding up everyone that doesn’t look and think like them to be executed.
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I guarantee you the ar-15 owner is a Fox News watcher. It would explain his paranoia and fear of strangers.
Hollonbeck admitted to his actions and said he was “afraid for his daughter’s safety and didn’t know who she was with or that she had left without permission,” according to the report.
Oh, well if he didn’t know then it’s perfectly understandable to point a gun at an underpaid taxi driver.
I thought pointing guns at people who you thought wanted to sleep with your daughter was something out of bad jokes and old movies. Apparently not.
Oh, you sweet summer child…
I genuinely can’t tell if this is satire or not
Most people don’t interpret satire well and this man is the current governor of Georgia.
Real life is satire now days
I had a old Co worker who told this story… When he was a teenager/early 20s he had several guns and was a member of the gun range. One day he went shooting and came home. Like a good gun owner started cleaning his guns when there was a knock on the door.
He held the shot gun he was holding over his should, several more from pistols to rifles on the table and answered the door.
Unknown to him his younger sister had a first date that night, and he was here to pick her up. Needless to say she was home before curfew and was a complete gentleman to her.
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Ok well I’m a older melenial and he probably 15 years my senior so yeah late boomer early Gen X…
This is why it’s so important to have AR’s at arms reach, who knows how this situation could have ended up had he not been armed.
The young female was still in the vehicle when she saw her father run up to the driver with an AR-15 in hand and force him to the ground, according to an arrest report.
was the driver…non-white perhaps?
The driver was actually “Exotic Oil Slick Rainbow” according to their tech specs.
Gorgeous
Not sure. But for all the talk about how antiwoman these people are they are pretty antiman too and assume any man is a danger to them. Would help us a lot of we looked at it that way, but we don’t.
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Anyone perceived to be “other”.
Today that’d also include anyone white they somehow determine as “woke” I guess. In the 60s/70s it would have been hippies.
Being anti-woman isn’t enough for you all?
Nah, see, the way they see it, that Uber driver isn’t a human being
You just clinched your interview for Uber upper management
Needs to have his fuckin kids taken from him, if they’re not yet adults. Psychopath.
Its a strange kidnaper that drops their victim off at home.
He crossed the line from protector to posseser is my wild guess. What a weirdo.
Naper.
He looks a little bit like Paul Rudd
fragile fuckin garbage ;;
Going to guess he considers himself a responsible gun owner.
Every gun owner is a responsible gun owner until they aren’t.
No, no they aren’t. Some people were never responsible gun owners to begin with, regardless of anyone’s beliefs around guns.
Most people I know I wouldn’t even trust with a grilled cheese sandwich.
dude i have fucked up the roof of my mouth on more than 1 grilled cheese
If one grilled cheese is a problem, have you tried cutting them in half? Diagonally only, of course.
That’s why we don’t give you guns.
Guns would definitely fuck up the roof of my mouth :(
Let me revise it then- Every responsible gun owner is a responsible gun owner until they aren’t.
Well, yeah that’s kinda the point isn’t it
Bigfoot, Mothman and the Responsible Gun Owner are my favorite mythological creatures of American folklore.
There’s definitely self-selection happening. A paranoid individual is more likely to feel the need to buy a gun. A person who wants control over others is more likely to feel that same need. A person with malicious or suicidal intent is more likely to feel that same need.
Meanwhile, it’s entirely a coin-toss on whether a sane, responsible individual actually feels like they can/should own a firearm. I think as we get into worse civil unrest, we will inevitably see more individuals feel that they have no choice but to arm themselves, but for the time being it’s going to the less savory folks rushing to buy.
I’m more of a Jersey Devil fan myself, could do without the gun owners and bootleg yetis.
I actually am a responsible gun owner. I keep my guns locked up when I’m not going to the range, and I store the ammo separately. When I clean my guns, I always check the chamber to verify it is empty. I have been shooting guns since I was about 8, and I’ve never had a negligent discharge and never will with how anal I am about gun safety.
The only reason I don’t carry is that I don’t have the money for it right now, and I don’t feel I am a good enough shot. I am only confident at 20 to 25 feet.
Well that’s good, but even if we are generous and say half the ~80 million gun owners in the US, are as responsible with their weapons as you are; that leaves a fuckton of gun wielders who are not responsible.
I am not outright anti-gun, but it makes no sense to me it took two tests and several weeks of waiting, to get a driver’s license; and if I want to do e.g. more than basic electrical or plumbing changes in my home, I should get a permit and there will be an inspection. Yet I could waltz into a store, buy guns like I was a personal army, and at worst I would have to wait a couple days to pick them up. As far as I know, there are 0 requirements or inspections for if you have a gun safe; let alone any form of test or licensing of if you are just barely competent and safe weilding them.I completely agree with you on everything you said. I would say that out of every gun owner I have ever met, I would say less than 10% of them have the emotional temperament to own a gun, let alone the ability or the knowledge to keep it safely locked up.
There should 100% be tests, and you should need to have a license to even own a gun, and almost no one needs to own one. It truly is absolutely ridiculous how easy it is to buy one in the usa. I don’t understand why anyone is against gun control other than them owning stock in gun companies ir the nra ir not giving a shit about other people.
And can I just say I don’t get why people are so quick to downvote my other comment for what seems like no reason at all.
Because every gun owner thinks they’re a responsible gun owner. Everyone is until they do something stupid and to act like you aren’t capable of making a mistake is naive. The problem is your mistake has deadly consequences. You can make the same argument for cars except driving isn’t a hobby in the US its a need. Like you said no one needs to own a gun.
I said almost no one needs one. There are still people who do need firearms. I’m not in that category anymore.
I fully recognize I can and do make dumb mistakes in my life, which is why I am so anal about gun safety. I make a show of me checking the chamber or cylinder. I make it known to anyone in the house that I am removing a gun from its case and unlocking it. I ask others to double-check the guns for me to ensure they are unloaded, and even then, they are never pointed in the direction of someone. Lack of respect for the dangers of firearms leads to negligence and negligence kills.
Provides evidence for responsible gun ownership
Lemmy: Time to downvote this person for neutralizing one of my arguments.
Wasn’t there a post just yesterday about a study saying people are more apprehensive of their neighbors when their neighbors have this type of gun?
Yeah, this is why.
And yeah yeah yeah, any random crazy person could have any random gun. But when you see your neighbor loading up with these guns you kinda know they are extra crazy.
Lose Your Right To Own Firearms And Surrender A Few Years Of Your Incredibly Short Life In One Easy Step!
Pfft. This is Florida, Desantis is going to make him attorney general within the week.
I wish this were true in practice.
I have been dealing with a crazy ex-friend who as it turns out is a felon who was already dinged for gun possession from a previous felony and now that I have new evidence of it happening again the police do not care at all, even though he harasses me constantly from different phone numbers every day.
