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Maybe Threads doesn’t, what about Meta?

Nope, it makes you less safe, too, especially if the threat is closer than 25 feet. They have the opportunity to wrest the gun from your control and use it against you.

I’m still going to stand by my previous comment.

My point was that for small arms to be used as an effective protection against threat, they must be used before the threat is imminent, i.e., in a “first strike” offensive capacity.

While it’s possible that an open carried firearm might have a deterrent effect, its presence makes every situation into “one with a gun in it,” which is necessarily less safe than one without a gun in it.

Care to elaborate?

And in this specific case, none of the workers were street-level, getting into randos cars. That doesn’t necessarily mean that all of the workers were willing participants, but I would bet that with the level of clientele involved, almost all were.

For a gun to be effective against an attacker, that attacker needs to be about 25 feet away or farther when you decide to shoot them. Closer than that, it’s a melee before you get an accurate shot off.

This means that you need to escalate a situation to gunplay way before you’re in actual physical danger, in most cases.

Unless you’re walking along brandishing your weapon, in order to be ready for a possible threat. This in itself escalates any situation you’re in to “one with a gun in it,” whether you’re ever in any danger or not.

Small arms are offensive weapons. They cannot be used for defense without making otherwise safe conditions unsafe, or by escalating a possibly threatening situation into a definitely dangerous one.

He sure knew the situation when he was calling Robinson “Martin Luther King times two.”

New band name: Sticky Anus Juice

He’s using the “exclusive we.”

“lol no”

Some dumbass at my kid’s high school recently wrote on a bathroom wall, “Gonna shoot up the school on [date, three days from now].”

They figured out who it was, he’s been charged with four felonies.

Just what I need for my herbal dick.

That’s … really bad.

Yeah, that’s about how that conversation went.

I had a dentist a while back tell me that the statistics for suicide among dentists are really high, but that they’re probably misleading. Because too many dentists fiddle with the oxygen safety on the nitrous feed, strap on a mask, lean back, pass out, die.

I didn’t have “Which Republican dog murderer are we talking about?” on my bingo card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_hypoxia

Euphoria is one of the symptoms of generalized hypoxia, and I would expect that this machine skips over many of the listed symptoms by rapidly decreasing oxygen.

Whether it should or not is completely irrelevant. It’s plenty arguable that any events influence elections, regardless of how close those events are to the election. That’s how people make voting decisions, on things that happen.

Judge Chutkan has already strongly expressed that her court will not consider anything election related when proceeding through this case.

Oh there’s going to be “political” violence no matter what. The fascists will either scream about “stolen election” or be given permission to exact their misplaced “revenge.”

Springfield OH is the current testing ground of “how far can we push it,” and the fascist campaign is actively and overtly doing the pushing.

That definitely plays a part, but there are other bits, too.

Old sealed beam lamps simply weren’t as bright as halogens or LEDs (or Xenons, for that brief moment in automotive lighting history). Sealed beams didn’t throw out as pure a white light, either, and they were more likely to become badly aimed. Sealed beam reflectors were all the same, no matter what car you put them on; automakers could adjust composite headlights to have whatever beam shape they wanted. All together, you could not see as far when using sealed beams in comparison to newer bulb technologies.

Back in the mid-1980s, when composite headlights were becoming more common on new cars, highway speeds were simply not as fast. Anecdotally, going 75MPH on the highways in and around Chicago was screaming fast in the 80s. Today, 75MPH on those same highways is slow. Modern cars are simply more capable of safely driving at high speeds, and part of that is because modern headlights are designed to throw whiter light farther. Headlights are brighter.

Throw some supermassive trucks and SUVs into the mix, where their OEM positioned headlights are higher off the ground, and many of them have big tires or lift kits making that even worse (and where exactly zero people who lift their vehicles also reaim the headlights) - if you’re in a compact or midsize sedan, well, fuck you.