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I'm all for trans rights, but as a non-American this is just...weird.
It's weird as an American, too.
I guess the point is... it doesn't matter so who cares. People used to think marrying outside your race was very very "weird".
I don't think marrying outside your race is the same thing as carrying a gun around pointed at your crotch.
Yeah, this is a wonderful way to accidentally escalate a situation via it falling out and scaring the shit out of everyone near you, shoot yourself in the femoral artery, or maybe you just enjoy it digging into your stomach and pelvis every time you sit down or lean over...
There are trans people who know how to carry guns. Used to be friends with one, used to go to ranges myself.
This is not how you carry a gun.
There are holsters and belly bands for this kind of thing.
I think the idea is basically:
Transphobe: "Tell me what genitals you have immediately."
Trans person: "No." *brandishes gun*
Pretty much just an extreme version of "mind your own business".
With a splash of “that’s not a knife.. THIS is a knife”
There’s something inherently satisfying about the oppressed/harassed/accosted person who whips out a bigger stick and shuts that shit down.
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It's like the author trying to make fun of anti-lgbt folks yet have them ask "which do you prefer" and also with the person having shitty concealed carry practice.
It's very much making fun of America of all side from what i can conclude.
I hate that the transphobia (especially at the end) ruined a great movie for me.
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Fuck me, hold tight. There's a gun in your trousers. What's a gun doing in your trousers? What's to stop it from blowing your bits off every time you sit down?
Passive and active safeties, a trigger guard, a stiff trigger, and, for some, not having a round in the chamber.
That makes it even weirder. Why would you carry a gun at this level of quick access, if the gun itself is not quick access?
I'm not confident your interest is genuine, as your incredulity seems intent on maligning gun owners, but giving you the benefit of the doubt and for the edification of lemmy readers:
while carrying a gun at the front of your torso does generally provide slightly quicker drawing speed on trained individuals and all things being equal, the "level of quick access" is not usually the reason to prefer this style of carry. Rather, many that choose "appendix" carry tend to do so for ergonomics and comfort.
Also, "the gun itself is not quick access" is a misapprehension on your part; every feature I listed that you replied to, other than leaving the chamber empty, does not add any time to the deployment of the gun.
And if you are genuinely curious, you may be interested to know that because modern firearms are so incredibly safe (like modern cars - its the people using them that make them unsafe, unlike the guns and cars of the past which were much more inherently unsafe in design), leaving the chamber empty is usually not necessary or practiced.
They say that 50 years or so ago a method of drawing a pistol with an empty chamber and chambering a round in the same motion was made procedure by the IDF, as their weapons were coming from many disparate sources and shouldn't be trusted to have functional firing pin safeties, etc., so they were trained to carry them with an empty chamber. Nowadays, carrying, drawing, and charging a pistol on an empty chamber is known as "Israeli carry" or "Israeli draw."
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A proper holster.
Things like this https://guerrilla-tactical.com/ and proper training. I used to daily carry as a queer person in a very conservative part of the US. But I no longer do as I no longer have the time to train like I used to and handgun skills are perishable.
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Unfathomably based.
As an ally, stay safe and strapped (if able) folks.
An armed minority is harder to oppress.
Okay but the Foot Locker employee handbook CLEARLY prohibits carrying unofficial firearms in the front of the store.
Turn in your badge and standard issue rifle.
Luckily, though, it's clearly an official Foot Locker Nike pistol, so false alarm
"Hehe im so quirky and wacky" - The author
After the olympics, it's now "What's in your genes?" being (willfully?) mistaken as "What's in your jeans?"
My answer is a knife :)
Are are?
So I'm not the only one who saw that.
As the famous saying goes "stay strapped or get clapped"
i know it's compensation for a lot of people, but never thought about it being a literal replacement.
also the first speech bubble is Paris in the the spring
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