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icewindandboringhorror · 9 hours ago

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The "average" person on facebook is so scary lol.. I’ve just seen someone post a status earnestly being like “whew thank god, SO happy to see there are armed security in front of my local Target store now! finally all those nasty thieves can be dealt with! <3” with nothing but complete agreement in the comments, plus people wishing anyone who shoplifts gets shot like "hopefully they're actually allowed to use their guns LOL! ;)" and that getting positive likes and reactions... ??? The whole attitude of "Oh noooo! :( Not someone taking like $40 of stuff from target! :( This is definitely not part of a larger systemic problem and could clearly all be solved if only I were just able to watch them be violently assaulted, which I am REALLY looking forward to because I am very normal and healthy :) God I wish so desperately that I could watch a poor person get gunned down in front of me, I dream everyday about seeing other human beings maimed!! Which again, is a completely normal healthy thing to wish for! :) Thank god I'm not some immoral thieving barbarian! And thank god for Target! :) <3" and that it's normalized enough that nobody in all the hundred comments finds it bizarre at all like.. hewwo..

#not even snooping on a conservative page. it's just like.. seemingly a bunch of average suburban ''normies'' or something #and then people being like 'there's always armed security inside when I'M shopping if you know what i mean'#like awesome.. cool.. love that there's trigger happy freaks running around eager to be the World Police ready to attack other #people for the horrible crime of a billion dollar corporation losing like $50 of merchandise. this is fine and good and cool and safe #It's just insane how so many people are so fervent about ''justice'' but the justice they talk so much about is not even #any form of real or reasonable justice that actually makes longterm systemic change to improve the conditons of the world in a way that #matters. their ideas of ''justice'' begin and end at like.. beating the shit out of homeless people and having folks with guns outside #of the walmart and talking about how protesters should get hit by cars. hmmmmm... i wonder why? so strange #that it's always punching down instead of punching up. I wonder who benefits from those being popular notions..?#which obv SOME rules r good. ppl shouldnt act wild in stores & harass workers &etc. but also like... ppl do NOT deserve get shot over bread #my first thought was 'oh no.. that would be horrifying' because I hate being around people with guns lol #I don't care if they're a ''good guy'' or just there to protect me or whatyever #i literally do not trust anyone. it could be my best friend of 65 years or my parent who raised me from birth #or something and i would NEVER want them around me with a gun. no matter what #it's just way too overpowered. all it takes is one 10 second lapse in judgment or something and they could kill me instantly #'but they have no reason to!' I KNOW! but people do stuff they have no reason to do all the time. who knows. i cant predict whats going on #in everyone's head all the time. all you can do is make assumptions. but those are never 100%. hence why I could never ever truly fully #trust another person in any capacity lol. so I definitely don't want anyone around me to just openly have the Instant Killing Device #I think it's kind of like nuclear weapons. people only really need to have gund because other people have guns so it's like mutually assur #ed destruction. so I can see the practical reasoning for them given that they already exist (like leftists being armed so they can defend #properly against alt right intimidation armed counter protests and etc. etc. ) BUT - I still think it would be vastly better if they had #just never been invented at all. ANYWAY. it's just weird to me how easily people will accept increasingly violent modes of being all for #the sake of 'protection against the evil criminals!' when in reality MOST of the stuff going on doesnt pose a threat directly to them #and that misses the point anyway. poeple supporting increased surveillance and weapons presence and etc. like it's just totally fine and #good and could NEVER be used against THEM one day bc OBVIOUSLY they're the Good Ones #further endangering yourself in a quest for Easy Solutions. simpler to just put men with guns all over the elementary school than deal with #the deeper culture that breeds mass shooters and pass better gun control. better to have men with guns at the target than adress economic #inequality in a meaningful way. it'll be fine. it's FINE. we're the Good ones. it'll never come back to bite us in the ass. i prommy #gun violence tw #death mention

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