• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    3 days ago

    In my neck of the woods, getting out of your car and charging angrily towards another car will get you shot or flattened.

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      3 days ago

      Seriously. I’m from texas. Some people would happily let him come over to their car and start reaching in punching just to let it cross into castle doctrine/stand your ground territory. I was always taught to just assume people have guns in their cars and to act accordingly.

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        3 days ago

        Getting into a gunfight over a road rage incident with children present sounds pretty american tbh

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        3 days ago

        I get the shot part but you’re seriously telling me someone in another country wouldn’t ever think to use the two tonne high speed steel box around them as a weapon when threatened?

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          Why would you run them over when you can just drive away… I’m very worried about my American friends when I see the violent ambience present there that the first thought when threatened isn’t “how do I get out of this situation” but “how do I kill this person”.

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            I think the desire for random violence is born out of the inability to be justifiably violent towards authoritarian figures. I think that’s why I like video games about shooting cops.

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          3 days ago

          I was really just referring to the getting shot part but tbh hopefully the first choice wouldn’t be to kill whoever’s walking towards you with your car

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      I’m not quick to violence or guns, but you’re not reaching in my window and dragging me out without you get a couple of Colt .45 pills to the thorax.

      Yes, much like myself, the .45ACP is old and slow, but it will handily punch through a car door and deep into a slab of fat dumbass.

      Who in America thinks they can just attack a stranger?!