People in this town, I swear.
“There’s a man who sits oh his back porch and threatens anyone walking through the alley with a gun. He will try to get you onto his property so that he can shoot you and claim you were trespassing. Please be careful if you use (alley) to navigate downtown, and tell your kids not to use this alley to get to and from school.”
Several other people in the thread:
“Wow, he has a right to own a gun.”
“None of that is illegal.”
“It’s his property.”
“Woke much?”
“I’d want to hear his side of the story.”
You know, I grew up in a really conservative small town in a very conservative state and when I was a kid, this would not have flown. Someone would have gone and talked with the guy at the very least and probably have involved the police. It’s wild seeing how this has shifted.
This town is making moves towards being more progressive, which I think is giving oxygen to the ‘culture war.’
I think the ‘both sides’ people are assuming that the person posting is doing so out of an anti-gun perspective instead of a ‘this dude is behaving erratically and the cops aren’t responding to it, please avoid’ perspective.
Someone who used to be his neighbor chimed in and said ‘oh yeah, he’s very argumentative and will go out of his way to have an altercation, so it doesn’t surprise us that he’s doing this. He knows the exact boundaries of the law and he tries to get other people to break it first so he can use tge ‘stand your ground’ statute.’
And there’s still people like:
“Well, when I was a kid I did some awful things so maybe he has a right and good reason to protect his property.”
Straight up will never understand
I think in any situation where someone’s like ‘avoid this person because he will try to kill you if he thinks he can get away with it’ and you respond with, essentially, ‘well he can if he wants to’,,,,, I would very much avoid you too
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