• cole@lemdro.id
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    15 hours ago

    If the idea is that I can’t defend my own property then I understand why pickpocketing is so rampant elsewhere.

    I don’t want to kill anybody, but I’m not gonna just hand it over with a smile on my face.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah I feel like I am in crazy town. If you don’t want your ass kicked keep your hands out of my pocket. There will be consequences and they will be lopsided.

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        2 hours ago

        I think it’s hilarious that Americans think they will always win every fight. Everyone the hero of their own stupid Judge Dredd story right up until they get stabbed and left to die in an alley by the thief.

        And I wonder how many of the people promoting this kind of thought say they’re against people like Trump, yet this kind of thinking exactly like that of Trump and his ilk.

        Grow the fuck up, dude. You can still join the civilized world anytime you want because they believe people can grow and change and should have the opportunity to do so instead of being crippled by some fuckwit who is angry about their wallet.

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          44 minutes ago

          Yes punching someone a few times and holding them down until the police come is totally what judge dredd is about.

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            36 minutes ago

            You’re still living in a fantasy land where you’re able to successfully pull that off every time this happens and not get your own shit rocked. You’re also living in a fantasy land where punching someone a few times while they’re down on the pavement and cracking their skull into the concrete won’t completely alter their lives, far more than you losing your wallet would alter yours.

            Get a grip on reality, dude.

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      14 hours ago

      You don’t have to want to kill anybody, but it’s still a crime to violently assault someone. Further, you can still kill someone without trying, say you punch him once and he goes lights out and his head hits the concrete so hard it kills him. Doesn’t matter that you didn’t want to, you just killed someone.

      Now if you used something defensive like pepper spray so you can escape with your wallet? That’s a different story. There’s a wide gap between protecting your property and assaulting someone.

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        20 minutes ago

        Spraying someone with pepper spray is a violent assault. It’s banned in a number of counties due to the possibility of permanent injury or even death, and the risk to bystanders.

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        14 hours ago

        I didn’t say I want to assault anybody. But if someone tries to take my wallet, would I push them off and move away swiftly? Yes absolutely.

        I guess to me, that seems rather defensive. I don’t want to engage any more than I have to to extricate myself from the situation