• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip
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    4 个月前

    There was a meme post yesterday or something about an androgenous person being asked what their gender was, being coy and then pulling up their shirt to reveal they are packing a pistol in their waistband, no holster.

    Someone genuinely asked if this is actually a thing people do and if its a good idea or not.

    Now possibly this person was not American and thus is not super exposed to guns but… just a shocking amount of people seemed to not understand that like… you dont do this because without a proper holster the gun can easily fall out or even go off, get the safety switched off, etc.

    As a leftist with a modicum of actual firearms experience, its insanely embarrassing watching a huge amount of online leftists have a whole bunch of opinions about guns, make a bunch of jokes about using guns, when its pretty obvious these are the kind of people that have no clue what they are talking about, the kind of people I would not want to go to a range with because I’d be worried they’d kill themselves or me.

    Of course, there’s even more right wing or just criminal idiots with even worse behavior, but its usually pretty easy to avoid them on the internet.

    I don’t even use the more mainstream social media at all due to highly concentrated cringe, advertisements and general brain rot nonsense, I can’t handle it, so seeing something like this, or what you said, a fucking meme of edging a glock to blow your own dick off… fucking ugh.

    Anyway blah blah guess I felt like ranting, anybody that doesn’t respect a firearm and injures or kills themselves due entirely to their own stupidity deserves no sympathy and should be laughed at.

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      4 个月前

      I feel you. I’m a left winger and target shooting is one my hobbies so I have a lot of respect for firearm safety.

      It hurts watching firearms handling in movies, watching people doing potentially lethal stupid things with them when more. There a just a handful of very sensible rules to follow and they are designed so that following at least a couple of them at the same time can prevent a tragedy. Yet people want to look cool and ignore every single one and inevitably blood is spilled.

      All the knowledge in the world at our fingertips and this is how some choose to use the Internet. It’s heartbreaking.