Comic Strips

Why should we normalize carrying weapons around in daily life?

Normalize carrying a deadly weapon that can near-instantly kill several people at once everywhere you go... You realize how insane that sounds, right!? Other countries are laughing at us!

Inferiority complexes do that to people.

You were so concerned with the undesirability of fear that you forgot why humans naturally experience fear in the first place.

"Don't worry, if you keep your hand on the burner long enough, you'll feel nothing at all!"

Normalize carrying rpg's to the grocery store to protect yourself from dad pranks like tapping your shoulder

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I see no reason to normalize open carry when even just owning a firearm, on its own, increases your chance to be killed by a gun for both suicide and homicide. Firearm ownership itself should not be normalized, as a matter of public health.

I get that it makes people feel safer, but it does not actually make them safer. If you don't have an obvious reason to have a firearm, like defending livestock, living in a high-risk environment, or as protection against wild animals, then you are objectively safer not owning one.

Normalize something that shouldn't exist, and has no reason to?

If your purpose is to normalize it, and it's normal where you live, then you can stop.

Good old Lemmy, where providing a different perspective gets you downvoted to hell simply because it's not the popular view. I'd even say we are much worse than Reddit when it comes to this, which is ironic.

I really hope this was at a competition. If this guy dresses up like this just to go out, he's got to have a horrible personality.

How ironic would it be if this guy was killed in a knife fight.

It's not really an actual problem more than it is a fashion statement, which is against the ideals of people trying to use it as a legitimate self defense tool if all else fails.

Most people want to live a normal life. Go to places with family and friends etc. Having a gun is a personal choice, and those that choose to carry usually feel that if they have the capability to carry legally and safely to do so just in case no other help can get to you in time. Similar to wearing a seatbelt without expecting an accident to occur. And if it's not for you it's okay we understand.

Open carry has a place. On police officers, in wilderness areas where predators are common, and on range days. But at a restaurant or store is NOT one of those places you should open carry even if you can legally.

It brings all the attention to you and your gun and usually gives off a negative first impression. Any "bad guy" will simply target you first and by surprise. Or take your gun's value as a sign of how much expendable income you have. And it brings about unwanted interactions as seen in the comic, but if you are open carrying maybe you are probably looking for that reaction and in that case it's not purely self defense it's attention seeking.

I carry a concealed gun when I can, I respect responsible gun owners but open carry people are not responsible in my eyes. They make us all look bad imo.

Have you ever heard of the expression "When you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail"?

Imagine if instead of a chick screaming about the guy it would be a guy screaming about a chick with purple hair?

Purple hair doesn't kill people.

Purple hair doesn't kill at distance, not as much as people claim it does.

Imagine if instead of a chick screaming about the guy it would be a guy screaming about a chick with purple hair?

I'm going to blow your mind here, but this was a comic strip and the character was drawn to be announcing things as a representation of what's happening inside the mind of the subject walking. It's an artistic/comedic effect and to take it literally or even remotely as a "both sides" issue is peak... something I can't say without getting banned most likely.

One of the things that really angers me about supposed second amendment supporters is their quiet acceptance of laws infringing on my right to bear any arm that is not a gun. In most states where it is legal to carry guns around, there are way more restrictions on carrying things like knives, swords, polearms, etc.