I’ve probably shared this already, but my son, who lives in a nice (white) neighborhood in a nice (white) city in nice (91% white) county in Kansas (80% white), has neighbor who mows his arm with a pistol on his hip, and another set of neighbors who clean their guns in their driveway.
To be clear, he and his wife are wonderful people.
There is an outside chance that he was worried about coyotes or something similar scavenging at the dumpster. Other than that, I got nothing. Happened in Texas (of course!), so certainly no bears at the dumpster. In San Antonio, but criminals are not awake at 6 am, so not sure why he was so afraid for his life that he had to carry a loaded gun while taking out the garbage.
By the way - there are a lot more tragedies like this than there are true “good-guy-with-a-gun stops bad guy” stories. When are the fear mongerers going to apologize and admit the harm they’ve caused? (rhetorical question - I know the answer is “never”, followed by them doubling down on their rhetoric)
That typo may prove prophetic.
Is he the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent?
The fearmongers will tell stories like “There was someone else in the parking lot when I came out of the store, so I threatened to shoot them, and they left immediately without robbing me. Good guy with a gun prevents another crime!”.
The storyteller, not @Chronos, misspelled “committed” there near the end.
Meanwhile, in the asshole tourist department, we have this dipshit who carved his family’s initials on a building in Pompei. At least he was British, not American, and he got caught.
memories weren’t enough for one British tourist, who was caught this week engraving the initials of himself and his family into one of the city’s 2,000-year-old houses.
The 37-year-old, who has yet to be named, is said to have made five engravings – the initials of his family and the date, August 7 – with a blunt object on the wall of the House of the Vestal Virgins.
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Staff at the site noticed and called the police. According to Italian news agency ANSA, the man apologized, saying that he had written the initials of himself and of his two daughters to leave a sign of their visit to the site.
So it’s okay to urinate in his living room if one wants to leave their mark.
To be utterly clear, SOMEONE is being a bit lax about distributing the word “nice.”
Well, yeah. I think we’d all figured that out for ourselves.
“I’m sorry officer, but, you see, I only robbed that bank because I wanted the money. So, we cool?”
“Fools names, like their faces
Are often found in public places”
That reminds me of this real life example.
L.A. burglar leaves apology note: ‘Sorry! Need money for drugs’
…may prove prosthetic…
Dan
Well done.
Wife was surrounded by 4 coyotes while walking one dog. She yelled loud enough that they left her alone. Now she carries bear spray and a loud whistle. I do too when walking the dogs.
I thought about a pistol, but soon changed my mind. A little analysis on that -
Bear spray is the clear choice. Sure I might end up with some in my face, dogs too, but all would be ok after a bit of time.
A couple of years ago, we were traveling… somewhere. Stopped to eat in a small town in Wisconsin. Away from any city. While we’re eating, a man walked in with a handgun in a holster. I can kinda understand maybe he worked on the fringes of town where there’s a higher chance of something wild coming after him, but wouldn’t you take the gun off when you went into town? What is scaring this person so much in a small town in Wisconsin that they feel their life is in danger enough to cary a firearm at all times?
Open carry became legal here in Kansas some time ago. I rarely see anybody carrying, but when I do, I always assume it’s somebody showing how macho they are rather than somebody who thinks their life is in danger.
Ah. Penile enhancement. Got it. (actually, I assumed that in my example, too.)
TBF if they were out working in the sticks then went into town, I’d give them a pass. Nothing intrinsecally “stupid” if properly holstered.
I vaguely remember reading that in the real Old West, one was expected not to openly carry while in town; I think the sheriff or police held your guns so that everyone was unarmed in town.