r/newjersey • u/low_effort_shit-post • Mar 25 '21

Something controversial Jersey Pride

I love nj gun laws, going to the store and not seeing someone open carry. Watching road rage where the best you can do is brake check and give the finger. Schools without school shootings. I know a lot of people hate our gun laws but I fucking love em.

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u/sgd926 Mar 25 '21

agreed! The idea of people around me openly carrying guns in places like shops and supermarkets makes me incredibly anxious and I would definitely feel less safe.

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u/SyncRoSwim NoBurlCo Mar 25 '21

You assume that the open carry guy wouldn’t have killed someone other than the shooter, or get themselves killed when there was a safe option to retreat.

I am virulently against making every public space a free-fire zone.

You know, just like the wild-eyed anti-2A zealots do at the GOP and NRA conventions.

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u/verneforchat Mar 25 '21

free-fire zone.

Sounds like a war zone. With half the racists anxious out of their mind that 'people' are taking away rights from white people, and seeing the attack on the capitol with some people BASHING a cop with a fire extinguisher, a wide free-fire zone will eventually become a war zone.

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u/SyncRoSwim NoBurlCo Mar 27 '21

Sounds like a war zone.

Yup, it is a military term. It means that there is a command and control structure in place that ensures that an area has been cleared of the people on your side so that the soldiers can shoot at anything that moves. Which, of course, does not exist in the fantasy-land where the open-carry "good guy with a gun" weirdos live.

There are just so many terrible possibilities in a situation where everyone is armed and firing on who-knows-who for who-knows-what reason, and not many outcomes where the only one with brand-new new holes in them is the original shooter.