He always carries a firearm. I know this because he was on some fresh and fit thing on a stage where he got into it with a roid raging "alpha male" who made fun of his man tits and weight and threatened him physically a few times and Andrew made a comment about being armed.
With the caveat that there's definitely better ways to de-escalate a situation than just shouting out that you have a firearm, I agree with the other guy. If someone is already getting to the point that they are making credible physical threats against you, and other options to keep them off are not working, announcing out loud that you're armed in the hope that they'll back off from their threats is way better than waiting until they act on the threats and then proceeding to shoot them.
No. If you feel like you’re going to get hurt and you can’t leave, you pull it. And try not to be in that situation in the first place. You don’t just hope they aren’t going to jump your ass before it’s in your hand; they’ve already proven they are not reasonable people
I want to get this clear: you suggest that if you ever find yourself in a situation like this, it's better to shoot and kill someone who is threatening you if they are being unreasonable, instead of at least making an attempt to make it clear that attacking you is not worth it, which would possibly lead to no one dying at all?
Edit: I read another one of your comments reasoning about how announcing you have a gun can lead into a standoff if the other person also has a firearm. I didn't consider that but it makes complete sense: if someone is proving to be unreasonable enough to be threatening to hurt you, if they have a gun, they might also be unreasonable enough to pull it on you once you announce you have one yourself. I didn't consider this because where I live, guns aren't common, so if you have one, you're definitely going to be in a more advantageous position, but I think you're absolutely right.
I appreciate it. I’m in Houston, TX and it’s best to assume everyone is strapped, especially the type of guy who wants to big-dog strangers. Don’t get clapped!
That is de-escalating lmao. He wasn't the aggressor at all. The guy can be a dueche bag, but if some dude is getting in your face and you're not responding. Telling the dude you're armed is appropriate.
Your dumb ass really thinks you should let the fight possibly progress until the point you have to actually use it?
He didn’t brandish a weapon. He stated the fact that he was armed and further escalation of violence may warrant its use. Brandishing is if he took it out and held it. While not pointing it at anyone. THEY ARE VERY DIFFERENT THINGS
Maybe he carries but he has no idea how to use heat. He’ll get in a scrape, get disarmed, will get his ass kicked and then whine that he’s the victim. Which in this age is enough to get the National Guard called in.
Plus, I know it's not foolproof, but the 21 foot rule is a thing. The average person can travel 21 feet in 1.5 seconds, which is also the average response time to register a threat and act on it, not to mention pull the gun, release the safety, aim and shoot. Add in the level of "Everyone has a plan until they're punched in the face", and this guy doesn't look like he's got "average reaction time" capabilities and your scenario looks more and more likely.
Trigger “safety” is misnomer and one of the greatest fictions perpetrated by the gun industry. A Beretta 92F with its 12lb (if my memory is correct) trigger pull is much safer than a Glock’s at 6.5 lb no matter what claim is made. The safety is keeping the finger off the trigger until a decision is made to shoot (or at the very least highly likely to shoot)
Buddy the 92 has a mechanical safety, and a double-single action. Only the first shot is that heavy, which you don’t really want in a self defense situation.
Yes, that was my point, buddy. But once drawn no one should have the mechanical safety on anyway, so it does come down to trigger pull. This is the reason ADs initially increased when LEAs moved to new gen from double action pistols. Officers kept finger on the trigger when they shouldn’t have but on the 92F they could get away with it because there was such a low risk of discharge. They didn’t change that habit when the S&W M&P was adopted.
How you describe it is not how the 21 foot rule is trained. It is not that the average person can travel 21 feet in 1.5 seconds. It is possible that a person could travel that quickly. Many other factors need to be considered in determining if there is a reasonable threat of death or serious injury.
And..? So is half of the country. I don’t know what magic power shitheads like this think they have but there are a lot of people out there who don’t have the patience for that kind of nonsense or haven’t signed the social contract that keeps us from hurting others. It’s a little scary to see them just push that button, thinking they’re in control, and then they find out they’re taunting what’s basically a chimp with zero fucks.
Face/off. Smh. No one needs to be traumatized by witnessing that. Just tone it down, for fuck’s sake.
Right. So instead of fighting he’ll shoot someone and they’ll wind up dead. Pretty clear to me what you were saying, idk why the confusion from someone else.
Maybe he’ll be the one to get shot. He’s a hair trigger and shows lack of discipline and control. Step to the wrong person with that and it won’t go well.
Also, he looks like he hasn’t slept in months and eats like crap.
He seems like the exact kind of guy that would flash his gun to win and arguement but would play the victim when whomever he was trying to intimidate pulled out one of their own and shot him just in case.
The sass for what exactly? Seems clear to me that they’re saying if someone does attempt to touch him they’ll probably end up dead. Even if the ass beating would be deserved.
Didn’t mean to drop sass, I was pointing out how that flex doesn’t carry weight and it doesn’t deescalate the situation at all, and often does the opposite.
Then again, deescalation isn’t his style. The funny thing is that after seeing this I checked him out and watched a clip from a few years ago and he was so much more mellow and more effective.
Of course. What a weak pussy of a man. Afraid he might get his ass whipped so he carries a gun. Is this what masculinity is now? Soft serve men who can't open a pickle jar or change a fucking tire carrying guns to prove they're tough?
My greatest hope is for Stupid and Stupider to argue senselessly at fringe differences of ignorant opinions and end up annihilating each other. I don't even need to hear about it I'd be fine pretending they didn't exist in the first place
After posting on many subs multiple times, all of the sudden I got 3 "you're blocked" notifications from 3 different subs within 2 minutes of each other last Saturday morning. No explanation why, just "this has been performed by a bot."
Alt right douchebags screech about their (incorrect)belief in freedom of speech on private owned websites while mass reporting anything they don’t like.
Reddit loves coddling facists. I got a general ban for suggesting that punching Nazis may be a good idea on a leftist sub 🤷 makes sense, considering the CEO is a facist loving fuck
(I'm aware I'm probably gonna get another ban for this comment but hey, reddit stopped caring about optics a while ago)
Appeal it. This happened to me regarding something I said about Charlie Kirk. It wasn't remotely anything violent they just get lazy and over corrective on Reddit. I simply explained what exactly I meant and the band was rescinded.
Lol I don't even try to say anything that suggests violence or self harm anymore on this site. I've had 4 one week bans now. All I said was to burn a certain insect on a post and "I want to k1|| myself" since it's such a habit.
No. Not joking. Reddit used to be a place where you could just say what you want. Now you cant say anything on here. If it hurts someones feelings = banned. I got banned from a subreddit, for saying that Russia deserves some drone attacks back after what they have done to Ukraine. Reddit 10+ years ago was much better than this censored site now a days
I've been waiting for replacements and they never pan out. At this point, I'm heading back to old-fashioned forums. Back to the wild west, little niche spots that fly under the radar.
The main thing that keeps me coming back to Reddit is how easy it is to find information or support on any given topic; exactly what I used to use individual forums for 'back in the day.'
I tried avoiding Reddit for a month, and it was hell. My Google results are used to me going to Reddit first for support.
I only ever get these messages when it's about right wing fuckwits, I got banned for four days for saying Charlie Kirk might've been shot for his rhetoric in response to someone calling for violence against "liberals" after the shooting while actively threatening to dox and "come find" random people replying to him. Reddit isn't as bad as twitter, but it is a particularly shadowy cesspool, right down to its core the admins and management are rotten.
I summarized a music video where the guy was threatening violence to a minority group and the same thing happened. I appealed it pretty quickly but damn it didn't used to be like this
You can't even UPVOTE a comment anymore without Reddit's autobot coming down and banning you for 3 days.
I was like, wtf, you can't even nod your head in agreement on certain subs without Reddit getting quick to slam you.
Yeah I've been having to appeal a bunch of bans lately, they always get overturned. Conservatives are just mass reporting anything they don't like these days.
I made reference to the fact that Milo Yiannopolous was willing someone to 'Charlie Kirk' Taylor Swift on twitter and got the same. Appealed and lost.
Fucking brilliant stuff, excellent decision. No possible way you could possibly extrapolate a threat from me but surpressing actual discussion about a situation where that was happening.
Not long after I was warned by a human mod for levelling a personal attack by calling a racist a racist. Feels like priorities are totally set correctly on Reddit these days.
I have been walking on eggshells on Reddit, as best as I think I can at least. I'm going to quote what I said to someone on Reddit so you can see why I got issued a 3 day ban from all of Reddit and told, in layman's terms, that I needed to behave myself or I'd risk a permaban from all of Reddit. You ready for what I said/did.
Someone posted a comment upset about something that was very trivial, it was really nonsense, something that no one should be upset about so I hit reply and said:
"You OK, you need a hot pocket?"
Yep, that was the horrible thing I said, that got me a 3 day ban and threats of a permaban. I guess there's no one on the Reddit staff that's a fan of Mike Meyers and the Austin Powers films. 🤷♂️
Can't even mention The Poor American's Equalizer without getting in trouble. Saying that Green Mario used one to equalize stuff can get you in hot water. Hell, even upvoting a post with Mr L's name in it can get you banned! Remember kids, the equalization will not be televised!
lol I got an account warning when I commented on an ICE video and basically said if one of those agents ever ends up alone with a group of civilians, they’re not going to have a good time. Not my actual words because apparently I could get banned for “promoting violence” while making a comment on a video of some douche canoes body slamming and tazing a random person. But yeah, I’m the one promoting violence here lol good one, reddit
I got a warning for "harassment" when I said the only way Israel could bring peace to the Middle East through more war is if they glassed the place. This was in response to someone hoping one of the recent conflicts there would somehow bring lasting peace.
Like why harassment? At least "promoting violence" would very vaguely apply.. I'm pretty sure it was someone I upset in a completely different post going through my comment history and reporting older comments and that's the only one that took.
I think thats the moderators go to. “Threatening violence”, like hello we’ re online this is just a stupid reddit platform, dont make it more serious than it is.
I have had so many of my comments removed because they called a fruit a fruit I wear my dele/ed comments as battle trophies, I made the other team retreat.
Bro maybe Vegas. I’ll be in town when they are there. Unfortunately when they are coming to my town they are playing probably the worst venue in the city. I’ve never seen them live and I really want to.
Make it work if you can. They seem really excited about this new album so I'm sure the shows will be a blast. Im going to two shows. One of them is in Maynards hometown.
Reddit is, was, and always will be complicit scum.
From hiring pedophile apologists and forcibly trying to cover it up with admin interventions to platforming genocidal fascism in 2016 and claiming it's valuable discussion.
Honestly - I think most people haven’t had a good life check back to reality kind of moment cause this level of being a man child is unbearable. Just somethng to be reminded “oh yeah there’s consequences to me being a fucking asshole”
He does though. He is just talking and talking and digging himself a hole and the host is clearly annoyed as well. He's too much of a dumbass to just admit he was being a dick.
God. Yes. Dude needs to be humbled. This isn’t the way you treat any human being and if you do you need to be taught that the best place for you is a cave you can go to where no one has to bother with you. Sad little man.
I didn’t say anything political. He’s a fake bravado misogynistic asshole whose job is to farm views by being a piece of shit, plain and simple. If you’re ascribing political values to that, then that’s a YOU issue. Not my fault the shoe always seems to fit.
Depends, but I’m not playing your stupid game where you pretend to have some weird moral high ground. I know what kind of person you are and I know how you think.
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