You have to admit, he was right.

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.

I used to be buddies with a retired NYPD patrolman. He said it was overwhelmingly common to have your service piece in your hip-holster and an unregistered "drop gun" in an ankle-holster. The idea being, if you need to shoot someone, you can cover your ass by dropping the spare on the body and saying they brandished it at you.

He wasn't the type to exaggerate or make shit up, so I tend to believe him on this. Just further proof, though: ACAB.

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

Super secret third gun, obviously.

I saw a motorcycle cop with an AR-15 style assault rifle locked to the side of his bike, riding down the expressway, on my way home yesterday. The gun was verical near the rear on the rider's right side with the barrel pointed down. No shotgun though.

I've heard of some police departments phasing out shotguns in favor of patrol rifles. Better accuracy, more ammo, lighter weapon...

Makes sense until someone clips a deer on the highway and it has to suffer from a bunch of .223 instead of a well placed 12 gauge slug.

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You gotta give the kids a gun too, they'll never expect that and they don't ever expect a kid to have a wallet so they won't search them to find it.

I think I cracked the code! /s

That's the old meta, the best strategy is to use one really big gun and lots of armor