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  • Hilarious.

    I’m betting he learned AOJ in this context means “Ability, Opportunity, Jeopardy” - the standard three-prong test used in justifiable homicide cases. Why is justifiable homicide relevant here? Because firearms are LETHAL weapons in the court’s eyes. There is no defense for “I aimed for the leg and tried to disable but oopsie doopsie I hit the femoral artery and they bled out on the street right in front of me.” Or, worse, “I aimed for the perp’s leg, missed, and the bullet traveled through the walls of your house, then through the walls of the house across the street and into a child’s bedroom, killing an uninvolved child.”

    If the situation can’t clear the AOJ test, you’re going to prison for manslaughter, best case. Because firearms are LETHAL weapons.

    If you’re going to use one, use it with the understanding that you are deploying lethal force. The circumstances need to warrant an escalation to lethal force. And know how to shoot. Get training. Practice. Real life ain’t like the movies. Just look up the number of hours of range time Keanu put in to prep for the Wick movies.








  • Ask yourself who perpetrates crimes.

    Do they have a job? A steady income? Stability in their life? Confidence about their future? Did they go to college or even complete high school?

    Or, are they broke, desperate, possibly with chemically altered cognition, and very likely to have a limited education/understanding about the world?

    The fact is - when you don’t know much, you look at the world through a very limited perspective. This restricts a person’s thinking into a narrow set of tracks that are all the most obvious paths to the goal of quick cash (often, to buy drugs to stave off the DTs for a few more hours). The stereotypical behaviors are the only things that are seemingly possible with a limited education and a chemical addiction.

    The reason stereotypes exist is because most humans aren’t that creative. Most people, most of the time, will do the same basic things everyone else does in the same basic ways everyone else does it.

    The main difference here is that a crook rationalizes their actions and does not properly consider key facts, like the general success rate of robberies. Most of the time, desperation plays a strong enough role as a motivator that you can see these folks telling themselves how they “have to” do this. They’ll psyche themselves up in the moments before they decide to act because they need to convince themselves that what they’re doing “has to be done” even when they know their odds of success are abysmal.

    Small-time crooks are cliche because the underlying reasons behind what made them crooks is always the same three or four things - poor, uneducated, desperate, and (often) addicted to something. The educated crooks are smart enough to get laws passed to make their crimes legal.


  • Yep. This is because most people don’t vote in ways that would facilitate enacting legislation to correct that problem.

    Our system of checks and balances only works when we work it. Every time somebody throws up their hands and gives up because of some perceived roadblock, that is what preserves these systemic abuses. To rid ourselves of the abuses requires a public with the desire to actually participate in their own government more often than one day every fourth November.





  • This is moronic advice coming from someone who has never even held a gun, much less seen a situation where one is a life-saving tool. Firearms don’t work like they do in the movies.

    If you want to use one for self-defense, seek professional training, learn the local laws, and also make sure you have insurance. Even lawful uses of firearms get brought into court. This can be financially disastrous if you aren’t prepared for it.

    If you choose to deploy a firearm for personal defense, you shoot high-center-mass and you shoot until the target stops doing whatever it was that warranted them being shot. In areas that have a duty to retreat, you must comply with those and other requirements before, during, and after you deploy your firearm.

    Don’t listen to internet knuckleheads about firearms. It’ll get you killed or imprisoned for a very long time.