At least they have guns so they can resist a hypothetical tyrannical gove-... Never mind.

So safe. This time it was a kid, but next time he might not be so lucky. It could be a delivery driver! The mailman! Someone getting the wrong address! Scary scary times we live in.

A dead kid by lax gun laws is just a necessary evil we have to accept! But heaven forbid they see a nipple, cancel that shit straight away!

In Louisiana in the early 90s a Japanese foreign exchange student was shot during a Halloween party when he accidentally knocked on the wrong house in costume. When he walked away, the home owner came out with a revolver and yelled 'freeze'. He didn't understand what that meant since his English was poor and he walked towards them and was then shot. He probably also thought that he DID go to the right house and as it was Halloween it was probably a gag.

The home owner was acquitted, but it caused an international incident.

I hope they'll lock up all of fox news, oann, etc as well as these lying fucks are the reason for people's minds being so fucked up

What color is your skin, though?

I canvassed door-to-door in Ohio in the mid-80s for a public interest org and I also never feared for my life. Although one time I had knocked on one door and was actually leaving the property when the homeowner opened his door and let his doberman out. This thing barked at me and seemed to be trying to bite me but I was able to keep my clipboard in front of his head. Anybody trying to defend themselves from a dog should try using a clipboard.

However, I'm white. I had a friend from Sri Lanka who was working the same job and his experience was a bit different. One time he was walking down a road and heard a noise behind him, turned around and saw a car approaching him with a guy sticking out of the passenger window holding a baseball bat.

This is different from just ringing doorbells. The article doesn’t say it and glosses over the fact that this kid was doing it for TikTok. The fuckin stupid ass TiKtOk ChaLLeNgE is to go up and kick the shit out the door as loud as you can, then run away after terrifying whoever is inside.

It’s no excuse to shoot, but it’s not a simple “kid rang the doorbell”

So doesn't that person have any deliveries or visitors or anything? Imagine ordering a pizza and then being shocked when some anxious guy (anxious because they got tons of deliveries to make on a deadline or be fired) shows up?

Keep Austin Weird Psychotic

Or are they so desperate to shoot someone that they just wanna blast some kid and say they feared for their lives?

It is exactly this. These are deeply violent people who are actively seeking any reason to hide behind the excuse of self defense.

As someone raised by conservatives, it's #2. They fantasize about being in a scenario where they have to defend their home with a gun. It's a core component of being a conservative.

There is something ingrained in certain people I'm finding. I'm a big dude who can handle himself if need be, but I also have guns cause the state does too. Moved from a more liberal area to this purple pearl in a very red area. Had a girl over one night and heard some rustling outside the door. I put on pants and went to go check it out and she asked me why I wasn't bringing my gun. Jackie, my sister in Christ, we are outside the downtown area of a fairly safe little tourist trap. At the absolute worst it could be is a small black bear that I just scream at. But I'm not going to jail for firing a gun near downtown(although that doesn't tend to stop anyone else around here).

None whatsoever. They're bloodthirsty savages. Itching for any excuse to murder someone.

I give it 2 weeks before the shooter is being interviewed on Fox. Whinging about how he's really the victim of some nebulous "woke mob" that drug him online for murdering a child.

Do none of these idiots have any real threat assessment?

More that they've got a house full of guns, an ear full of "crime wave!!!" media, and a not insignificant amount of mental illness.

"If someone rings my doorbell and runs away, they're targeting my house for a burglary" is a thing lots of people unironically believe.

Or are they so desperate to shoot someone that they just wanna blast some kid and say they feared for their lives?

Definitely elements of that, too. But in the sense of feeling like they want to be the hero of a story they've heard on Talk Radio.

A lot of these people are legit delusional.

I think they are just stupid, scared people who watch Fox 24/7 and really think bad things are happening everywhere. Or to put it more succinctly, they are little bitches.

Or are they so desperate to shoot someone that they just wanna blast some kid and say they feared for their lives?

Too many people are kept in check by fear of getting caught by the law and will turn into savage beasts at the slightest opportunity.

It absolutely does happen here. Like this one for example: guy chases young girl with an axe after messing with his doorbell.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2438126-man-wordt-boos-om-belletje-trekken-en-verwondt-man-met-bijl

Don’t mess with the wrong people. You never know what’s going to push them over the edge.

...or really anywhere in the civilised world

The Houston police department have not released the identity of the boy or the occupant of the home, but said a middle-aged man has been arrested and several weapons were later recovered from the home.

It happened on Sunday; that's all the consequences that have happened thusfar. There will likely be a trial, but the justice system moves a lot more slowly than it would have to for there to be anything more than that yet.

This just in: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/us/houston-ding-dong-ditch-shooting-arrest

He's been charged with murder

It is wild to me that someone hears their doorbell and their instinct is to grab their gun

Seriously, my first instinct (like any normal person's) when I hear my doorbell is to pause whatever I'm watching or playing, turn off the speakers, and slowly and silently creep towards the door to peek through the peephole and see if whoever rang without scheduling first has already gone away and I can go back to my normal life.

What am I going to do with a gun, shoot the bastard and cause even more people to come to my door‽

Fox news fucked up this whole generation.

Child homicides and violent crimes are lower now than they were 40 years ago. Around 1992 was when it was the worst in the past 45 years. That's not even per capital either. Just number per year. In 1980 the population was 226 million. Now it's 340 million, so even though there's over 100 million more people, there's still less violent deaths.

Kids are safer. It's just blasted all over the news and internet anytime something fucked up happens.