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WhiteLottus t1_j9b3c2d wrote

Reply to TIFU by skimming the menu by PM-me-fancy-beer

I ordered a burger from five guys two days ago and apparently I ticked a box that would put my burger on a plate so I had to eat an empty cheese burger with my hands without the bread. I'm sorry for your loss.

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_Kokiru_ t1_j9b1x8u wrote

Reply to comment by ChainmailleAddict in TIFU by fighting two guys over a car that isn't even mine. by Derpguycool

Or it would tick off the bear, especially since there are two of them to worry about. These guys were already angry and unreasonable, no criminal is going to rob a car for their life, and these folks don’t seem high, you and I both know he wouldn’t have been beaten up if he had drawn a weapon. I put those words in your mouth, because that’s what your actions in regards to the situation state. Weapons only escalate an already escalated situation. Ie a shoot out. In such a case you run away if given the chance.

(You do also know that shooting someone doesn’t kill them right? That’s why you train with your gun, so you know when to take a life, and when to protect one even if they don’t see it as that.)

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ChainmailleAddict t1_j9b1f5e wrote

Reply to comment by _Kokiru_ in TIFU by fighting two guys over a car that isn't even mine. by Derpguycool

" if you aren’t willing to kill when necessary, than you don’t value your life at all, nor the lives of others. "

Don't put words in my mouth. I'm saying that a gun needlessly escalates a situation. What happens if they charge you thinking they're going to die? It was a freaking parking lot with people in it, it's not like it was a back alley where he'd never have been discovered. Even if you DO shoot them, congrats, they didn't have to die and they'd have never been thinking life or death without that gun there in the first place.

My argument is simply that having something like pepper spray will create better outcomes in this particular situation than a gun.

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_Kokiru_ t1_j9b0imv wrote

Reply to comment by ChainmailleAddict in TIFU by fighting two guys over a car that isn't even mine. by Derpguycool

A gun is non-lethal. You aim it and tell them verbally to get away, or on the ground, etc etc. if you aren’t willing to kill when necessary, than you don’t value your life at all, nor the lives of others. This man would be dead in any other situation, but with a gun? At least you can shoot towards em and run, it’s a deterrent, and a weapon, not just a deterrent.

(Also “maybe in on cocaine” you don’t know if any of these guys were past military members, officers, etc etc, who have trained to be able to still preform with your “deterrent”. Don’t place your life in the enemies hands, take it and guard it yourself in situations like these.)

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AcrobaticSource3 t1_j9az0ig wrote

Reply to TIFU by skimming the menu by PM-me-fancy-beer

Lol, I thought this was gonna be about you going to a high end restaurant, not paying attention to the price, ordering more expensive food than you could pay for, being stopped by security before you could dine and dash, and waking up in a bathtub full of ice cubes and missing a kidney

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