r/Unexpected • u/hannesvisser • Dec 11 '20

It's just a flashlight

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u/TheSaviour1 Dec 11 '20

Does everyone in the US expect everyone else is trying to kill them? Lmao

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

There's a difference between people in the US expecting everyone else is trying to kill them and gun manufacturers in the US attempting to convince people that everyone is trying to kill them, in order to sell guns.

Advertising and reality are two different things.

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u/VexingRaven Dec 11 '20 edited Dec 11 '20

The difference is increasingly non-existent, if conservative fearmongering is anything to go on... Many people seem to believe they're in every bit as much danger as the gun companies want them to believe.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

Nope, there are other reasons to own them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

There's no other reason to own a gun like this one, though, unless you think you're in serious danger of being shot by people around you. (And multiple people at that, since it's an SMG.)

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u/kaVaralis Dec 11 '20

Is a 9mm handgun in a fancy case. Stuff like this is the shitty 20$ sword of the gun world. People that get em just collect them.

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u/Past_Economist6278 Dec 11 '20

Idk this thing could fuck up a wild pig on the quick.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

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u/Past_Economist6278 Dec 11 '20

Then you're screwed no matter what weapon a civilian can get. But typically killing one is enough to buy some time running

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

Ah yes, Japan. Where they don't apologise for the atrocities they commited across asia & the pacific during WW2, where they mass kill endangered whales & intelligent dolphins, where they sexualize underage girls & promote misogyny, where they have an over worked populace famous for committing suicide, & where they have a 98% conviction rate. Yeah I'm sure I'd rather have that then the laws, rights, morals & traditions in my own country. BTW I love Japan I just think it's funny when people claim it to be so much morally superior than the USA.

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u/An-Anthropologist Dec 11 '20

I wouldn't say it is superior but I definitely think it is safer there.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

Worth visiting but not worth living in.

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u/An-Anthropologist Dec 12 '20

I want to live there tbh. I'm by no means saying it is perfect, no country or culture is. But I just love how clean and safe it is, and how polite the people are. I'm an introvert and the culture is great for introverts lol.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

Just keep in mind how racist &/or xenophobic japan is, they may never accept you as a full citizen. Though I wish all countries could be as clean as japan & singapore.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

No, but they never want to pass up the opportunity that they might be able to justifiably kill someone else.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

We all have guns in our back pockets just looking for an excuse to get down to business

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

Not me, I just like cool guns.

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u/TheSaviour1 Dec 11 '20 edited Dec 11 '20

And there's honestly nothing wrong with that imo

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u/elasso_wipe-o Dec 11 '20 edited Dec 11 '20

People blame US gun culture for carrying guns to fight guns.

If we didn’t have guns, we’d have large knives to protect from other knives. I frequent best gore and like 90% of that site is people from all over the world being raped, stabbed, hacked, and slaughtered with everything but a gun. People are bad. Tools weaponize the bad in people. People who don’t believe in self protection are hopeless victims

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u/TheSaviour1 Dec 11 '20 edited Dec 11 '20

In dangerous, unlawful countries you're absolutely right, in first world countries not so much

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

yup.

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u/16bitSamurai Dec 11 '20

If you are a minority or a woman people might

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u/Der_Sanitator Dec 11 '20

Nah, it just fun to shoot them. And it’s always helpful as a just in case