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Gun manufacturers are having a great year.
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Dogs get shot.
Life isn't a video game.
Ask a real world security professional and they'll tell you to get a dog.
A gun salesman will tell you that if you buy a gun you automatically become Annie Oakley
I am a (former) real world security professional.
And I'll say that a gun is much easier to carry around with you than a dog.
I taught my gun to walk, now I don't have to carry it anymore :D
Good boy!
I have a dog. I'm also surrounded by fascists in the deep south. I'm keeping guns because I'd rather live than die for some abstract moral point you're trying to make about how we should live in a fantasy land where people in fascists states don't need guns.
I think we're talking two different things. I'm not saying to buy a giant handgun and wait for robbers to come into your house so you can blast them away.
I've known people who fantasize about that. They are gross.
What I'm saying is that the police in the United States have a history of shooting dogs, so they do absolutely nothing for you anti-fascist security. They would absolutely help against theft and robbery because most robbers want to be quick and quiet. Police don't care.
But so a gun doesn't help either. It just means they call SWAT and take you down with superior numbers and firepower, doesn't it?
The only real place where a gun helps is in an actual civil war, or possibly against a single non-governmental bad guy (with risk of being shot yourself as well).
We don't know that. It might be, and unfortunately I think who ever is playing has gotten bored.
No they will fucking not.