After other recent rideshare initiatives, I propose they introduce a “no white women” option for men of color. Dead ass.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. In the South this is still a legitimate safety issue. America is a racist shithole
He’s probably being downvoted because his argument seems too similar to the flawed argument that women should have their clothing choices restricted because some men can’t control themselves. It seems like a form of victim blaming/punishing.
That was not the argument at all, and your assessment is so far out of left field that I’m not entirely sure you actually read it. Seeing how calling out racism was removed as racism, I won’t revisit it, though.
I think you need to word it better, call it the “I don’t want to deal with your crazy racist shithead father (who ruins every Thanksgiving) running out with a gun when I drop you off mode”
Every definition of the word conservative leads back to fear, afraid and terrified.
And the local trough feeders statement, “I think it’s a case of being an overprotective parent to some extent, Sheriff Johnson said"
Its a strange kidnaper that drops their victim off at home.
Naper.
He crossed the line from protector to posseser is my wild guess. What a weirdo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
boomer ass story, bud.
Presumably she’s old enough to have a phone and order an Uber. I’m guessing the the father’s taking the phone away (nothing she did).
wtf happened to simply talking to people?
Poor daughter. I hope she reminds daddy later on why she does never visit.
It’s the escalation of fear in the US. We’re force fed fear by the news, media, and Hollywood. Everything is tension and violence.
Long way of saying “We need guns because we’re the biggest bunch of fucking cowards on the planet”
😂
When you have a gun, especially a “manly” gun like an AR-15, you start having intrusive thoughts and desire to use it.
Same with police. If you dress up for war and talk up an us/them mentality eventually it boils over to what we have today. Many cops (not all) are just playing dress-up so they can play war.
Wow I didn’t consider this at all. When I consider my own gun ownership and acquiring a pistol or rifle, I’ve literally never thought, “but what if I start itching to use it.” I’m more concerned with “where the fuck would I keep this away from little hands, with ammo locked somewhere else, in a practical way to go grab it all and assemble between hearing an intruder and interfacing with them… okay, this is dumb. I’m not getting guns”
Sadly, that modicum of thought you put into it, is 10000 times more thought than most “responsible gun owners” actually muster
When policing started including less-than-lethal alternatives for eliminating/subduing a threat, cops stopped killing as many people.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And while you may not operate that way, gen pop does, even trained “professionals”
This is why you wouldn’t do what this guy did.
Kyle Rittenhouse is a perfect example of what I’m talking about. He took his AR-15 and drove half an hour to “protect businesses” that he had no stake in. He armed himself and then deliberately embroiled himself in a tense, riotous situation. While he might not have done anything technically illegal, he was clearly spoiling for an opportunity to brandish and use that weapon.
I’ve [fired a gun] a lot in movies, but there are too many guns in the real world. I know people with guns, and they always say the same thing. “If somebody breaks into my house, I have to be able to defend myself.” But what they’re really saying is, “I hope somebody breaks into my house so I can use this thing.” It’s so wrong.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like nail.
Christopher Walken always has been one of the good guys.
“I suppose I think of the man I’m playing as bisexual, and I suppose that’s how I think of myself too. I’d hate to think that I was harnessed to heterosexuality. I mean, my life is heterosexual, but I like to think that my head is bisexual, and I think it’s a good idea for everybody to start getting used to that notion, because that way one becomes aware of a lot more things.”
that was 1973 - it doesn’t get more progressive than that for that time.
You just broadcasted that your house is defenseless.
I find this relevant, how we are less connected with those that provide services: https://youtu.be/q1jRx6VzzhI
Think about how you transform behind the wheel. This morning, at the buzzer for school dropoff. Three of us at stop sign fighting to go through first to grab street parking… all end up parking together bc we’re in the same community at the same school… the woman who angrily gestured at me for doing nothing wrong… Same friend who’s kid I carpooled in the morning last week. She probably had no idea it was me. And I don’t feel any differently about her bc I get it.
Because everything is through an app now. God forbid you call a cab or the restaurant directly to order your food?
I get pizza every other week from my local pizza joint. Delivery driver is always the same and I know a shit app like Uber eats isn’t taking a cut for jack shit.
The problem is we want more for less. People need to understand for the things they want they have to pay more and we aren’t there yet. People don’t give a shit. They want cheap and disposable.
God forbid you call a cab or the restaurant directly to order your food?
Most restaurants do not deliver and I think its honestly ridiculous to call a cab to go to and back to a restaurant when delivery services exist. If you happen to live in one of the rare places that have good public transit that’s a great option though.
Needs to have his fuckin kids taken from him, if they’re not yet adults. Psychopath.
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.
And yet again this shows that people cannot use guns responsibly, guns must be prohibited. The US could be such a nice place…
Hollonbeck admitted to his actions and said he was "afraid for his daughter’s safety
The kidnappers are dropping our own children off at our on front door?
Cocks gun
Not today.
The US could be such a nice place…
Not really. You’d still have way too many stupid and hateful people.
They’d just be slightly less dangerous stupid and hateful people.
(And yes, I do mean slightly, but am not going to go more into details of the other methodology with much higher body counts that the hatred of small minded folks have taken over the years.)
Not really. You’d still have way too many stupid and hateful people.
I’d gladly take an unarmed stupid, hateful people over this
I dunno, I reckon they’d be a lot quieter if there’s an actual danger of physical harm to themselves.
Guns make people too eager to do crazy shit. You’re not going to try to force somebody out of their car with a flick-knife.
You’re not going to try to force somebody out of their car with a flick-knife
In countries that don’t just give guns to anyone who can write their name, carjacking is functionally unheard of. It’s just not a crime that happens. If the criminal doesn’t have a gun, you can just drive away.
They’d just be slightly less dangerous stupid and hateful people.
Which is the point?
Stupid and hateful people just not having guns does not “a nice place” make.
An asshole will always be an asshole but an asshole without an AR-15 is less dangerous to everyone else. I stand by what I said.
And yes, I do mean slightly, but am not going to go more into details of the other methodology with much higher body counts that the hatred of small minded folks have taken over the years
Apologist bullshit. There is no reality where this man threatens an Uber driver with a truck bomb. Even when talking about domestic terrorism, bombs are far more effort with far more risk, which is why they’re not already used.
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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.
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.
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
I grew with a even more extreme version of this guys demographic. I can assure you anyone not white, male and christian is the enemy.
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.
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
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 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.
I’m more of a Jersey Devil fan myself, could do without the gun owners and bootleg yetis.
He looks a little bit like Paul Rudd