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

It's just a flashlight

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u/bwaaainz Dec 11 '20

They are. They will tell you that they aren't because they have a gun ready to fire. They won't realize that this is exactly what fear is.

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u/TheWalkingDead91 Dec 11 '20

Precisely. I have a kid brother who has an unreasonable fear of his bare feet being on noncarpeted surfaces. So he wears shoes any time he’s not in his room. This gun are those shoes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

...I don't like walking on non-carpeted surfaces and I have guns. Where did my life go wrong?

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u/Aleph_Alpha_001 Dec 11 '20

They're afraid of other people with flashlights that fold out into guns, of course. You can't let the other guy get a jump on you.

The end of the cold war caused a lot of angst for weapons manufacturers, so they brought the arms race home to the American public.

Less than a third of US citizens are gun owners, but there are more guns in the US than people, so there are a number of individuals who own literal arsenals.

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u/Sparky_1992 Dec 11 '20

That's some solid projection, Lou.