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    This is like the most USA thing i have ever read and- yeah whatever i wonder if this is even real or just a movie trope atp

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      This absolutely is a thing in some gun circles. They will open carry their main weapon, and then ankle holster a small derringer style. And every gun nut will point to stories like this and say SEE IM NOT CRAZY.

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        Thing is if I was this guy I would feel 100% vindicated because of this moment.

        I think it would make sense depending on where at in the us you live. If you live in a high crime metropolitan area then I’d say go for it.

        If you live in the Styx or in a relatively low crime area its overkill.

        On the other hand, sometimes when a criminal sees you have a gun they just shoot you immediately that has happened in my city several times, someone pulls a gun on them but holds it like a limp dick because they are scared and the thing they don’t realize is the person robbing them at gun point likely uses that gun every day…

        Its nuanced and I really don’t know the solution to it at all because if you take them away from everyone those people that use them every day and rob people at gun point will still have them and if you’re counting on the police to help you HA good luck. If they even show up you’ll be lucky that they don’t just shoot everyone.

        Especially when responding to a “shots fired” call.

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          If you live in the Styx

          The Styx as in … the mythical river that runs through the underworld? Yeah, I can see that being a low crime area…

          (Sorry, european here, if you meant someplace in the US, I’ve never heard of it)

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        Coincidentally, i don’t need anything to defend myself where i live because all weapons are illegal to carry in public, i can carry chilli pepper spray but that’s it

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    It’s like i always say, the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with two guns; that’s why police always carry a rifle in the car.

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    Did you know there’s an ancient seagrass meadow off Western Australia?

    In Shark Bay, a single clone of seagrass called Posidonia australis has been growing uninterrupted for roughly 4,500 years. It sprawls over 180 square kilometres underwater, yet genetically it’s just one plant. For context, it started sprouting around when the Great Pyramid was being built, and it’s still out there doing its thing.

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    Always carry a decoy wallet and a decoy gun. That way you give the decoy wallet and gun, the robber is distracted then you have plenty of time to shoot them with the real gun

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    It’s the circle of life.

    You see, the crack heads rob the normal people. Then the normal people pull out their back ups and 3 tap them.

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    I always see these two (or ones that look like them, sometimes one of them is old) in movie communities/posters/memes. Were they part of some comedy group, or in a movie together?