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[–] [email protected] 111 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] InternetCitizen2 53 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago

*their shotgun

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a line that'll absolutely get me laid where i live ngl

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] EnderMB 68 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm all for trans rights, but as a non-American this is just...weird.

[–] samus12345 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's weird as an American, too.

[–] nexguy 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess the point is... it doesn't matter so who cares. People used to think marrying outside your race was very very "weird".

[–] samus12345 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think marrying outside your race is the same thing as carrying a gun around pointed at your crotch.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think the idea is basically:

Transphobe: "Tell me what genitals you have immediately."

Trans person: "No." *brandishes gun*

Pretty much just an extreme version of "mind your own business".

[–] Jimbabwe 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With a splash of “that’s not a knife.. THIS is a knife”

There’s something inherently satisfying about the oppressed/harassed/accosted person who whips out a bigger stick and shuts that shit down.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

It's like the author trying to make fun of anti-lgbt folks yet have them ask "which do you prefer" and also with the person having shitty concealed carry practice.

It's very much making fun of America of all side from what i can conclude.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I hate that the transphobia (especially at the end) ruined a great movie for me.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Fuck me, hold tight. There's a gun in your trousers. What's a gun doing in your trousers? What's to stop it from blowing your bits off every time you sit down?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Passive and active safeties, a trigger guard, a stiff trigger, and, for some, not having a round in the chamber.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That makes it even weirder. Why would you carry a gun at this level of quick access, if the gun itself is not quick access?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I'm not confident your interest is genuine, as your incredulity seems intent on maligning gun owners, but giving you the benefit of the doubt and for the edification of lemmy readers:

while carrying a gun at the front of your torso does generally provide slightly quicker drawing speed on trained individuals and all things being equal, the "level of quick access" is not usually the reason to prefer this style of carry. Rather, many that choose "appendix" carry tend to do so for ergonomics and comfort.

Also, "the gun itself is not quick access" is a misapprehension on your part; every feature I listed that you replied to, other than leaving the chamber empty, does not add any time to the deployment of the gun.

And if you are genuinely curious, you may be interested to know that because modern firearms are so incredibly safe (like modern cars - its the people using them that make them unsafe, unlike the guns and cars of the past which were much more inherently unsafe in design), leaving the chamber empty is usually not necessary or practiced.

They say that 50 years or so ago a method of drawing a pistol with an empty chamber and chambering a round in the same motion was made procedure by the IDF, as their weapons were coming from many disparate sources and shouldn't be trusted to have functional firing pin safeties, etc., so they were trained to carry them with an empty chamber. Nowadays, carrying, drawing, and charging a pistol on an empty chamber is known as "Israeli carry" or "Israeli draw."

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

I like my bottom surgery to come as a surprise

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

A proper holster.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Things like this https://guerrilla-tactical.com/ and proper training. I used to daily carry as a queer person in a very conservative part of the US. But I no longer do as I no longer have the time to train like I used to and handgun skills are perishable.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay but the Foot Locker employee handbook CLEARLY prohibits carrying unofficial firearms in the front of the store.

Turn in your badge and standard issue rifle.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Luckily, though, it's clearly an official Foot Locker Nike pistol, so false alarm

[–] Feathercrown 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Hehe im so quirky and wacky" - The author

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfathomably based.

As an ally, stay safe and strapped (if able) folks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

An armed minority is harder to oppress.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

After the olympics, it's now "What's in your genes?" being (willfully?) mistaken as "What's in your jeans?"

My answer is a knife :)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

As the famous saying goes "stay strapped or get clapped"

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