Iccarus. It is not difficult to tell the difference between someone choosing to attack innocents, and an innocent who was forced to defend themselves from attackers.
This meme is "don't tread on me". Micro-dick Ethan decided to tread on others.
He could be bullied by Adolf Fucking Hitler, it doesn't matter in the least.
Actually, I'll prove it. I'll stand in public with my CC, you can find me and use whatever slur or creative threats you want. And I won't shoot you until you actively try to take my life.
Because that's the difference between a victim and an assailant. Whichever one attacks a person is the assailant.
Ok, then. We can meet someplace where open carry is legal. I'll stand there and take whatever insults or threats you can imagine.
I'm not accusing *you* of resorting to slurs or threats. I'm saying that if you did, to my face while I was armed, you would be completely safe. And that if you tried to take my weapon or otherwise try to end my life, you would die. I would be the surviving victim of a murder attempt, and you would be the assailant.
Because that's what defines who the good guy and the bad guy is, or who the victim and the assailant is: Whoever tries to do actual harm. And no, feelings don't count. So if I shot you for mean words that would make me the bad guy/assailant.
You got it wrong, there's nothing moronic about being prepared for situations you don't expect, don't want, and may even hope for preparation to deter. At worst it's optimistic.
What's moronic is attacking somebody who has a rifle, and it's also moronic to attack someone who has a rifle and is running towards the police for help.
You're STILL on this? Holy crap, man. I've seen dogs with bones less determined and with more reason behind their actions. Let it go or have a discussion. Quit with the circular logic of "It just does" or shut up.
If I have a rifle and am doing nothing wrong, then I am doing nothing wrong.
If you want to fuck with someone and have half a brain cell, you would figure not to fuck with the person who is visibly armed. A person who is armed that is doing nothing wrong is provoking and escalating nothing. They are just existing.
If you try to halt their existence, you are escalating a non-issue into a murder attempt. And that you're stupid enough to try to murder anyone, even someone who is visibly armed, makes you the thing escalating the situation. And also stupid.
If a little guy tries to kill a big guy, is the big guy wrong to kill the little guy in self defense? If a woman tries to kill a man, is the man wrong to kill her to defend his own life?
i find it amazing that only one other thinks without the rifle brought, nothing would happen. You can't see that it escalated the situation to where guns were drawn and lives threatened.
And no, he was doing nothing wrong, but bringing a rifle to the riot was seen as a challenge, as evident by people challenging him.
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There you go
This meme is "don't tread on me". Micro-dick Ethan decided to tread on others.
Actually, I'll prove it. I'll stand in public with my CC, you can find me and use whatever slur or creative threats you want. And I won't shoot you until you actively try to take my life.
Because that's the difference between a victim and an assailant. Whichever one attacks a person is the assailant.
I'm not accusing *you* of resorting to slurs or threats. I'm saying that if you did, to my face while I was armed, you would be completely safe. And that if you tried to take my weapon or otherwise try to end my life, you would die. I would be the surviving victim of a murder attempt, and you would be the assailant.
Because that's what defines who the good guy and the bad guy is, or who the victim and the assailant is: Whoever tries to do actual harm. And no, feelings don't count. So if I shot you for mean words that would make me the bad guy/assailant.
Hurt people: Bad guy
Fight back: Good guy
What's moronic is attacking somebody who has a rifle, and it's also moronic to attack someone who has a rifle and is running towards the police for help.
If you want to fuck with someone and have half a brain cell, you would figure not to fuck with the person who is visibly armed. A person who is armed that is doing nothing wrong is provoking and escalating nothing. They are just existing.
If you try to halt their existence, you are escalating a non-issue into a murder attempt. And that you're stupid enough to try to murder anyone, even someone who is visibly armed, makes you the thing escalating the situation. And also stupid.
If a little guy tries to kill a big guy, is the big guy wrong to kill the little guy in self defense? If a woman tries to kill a man, is the man wrong to kill her to defend his own life?
And no, he was doing nothing wrong, but bringing a rifle to the riot was seen as a challenge, as evident by people challenging him.