He then asked if I was willing to shoot someone over my xbox.
I told him, "The xbox was besides the point. We are talking about a person intruding into my house at night with my family present. Hell yes, I'd shoot him. It's the principle of the thing. I'd shoot a hole in my xbox without blinking to do it."
If you have never been in a fight in your life it's very easy to think that mutual escalation is always the way to go. "oh, I'll just wait until he uses lethal force, then I can respond"
its always people hoping they won't have to hurt someone, but that is a dumb way to handle someone presenting an imminent threat. Your concerns should be, Primary: Your safety(a dead person helps no one), Secondary: Your loved ones and any nearby innocents, Tertiary: Your things and possibility of over penetration or misses, the safety of the threat should not even be a factor
The person making a decision to break into another's home for a material possession has already set the price on the value of their life.
We are dealing with the lowest of the low in terms of mental capability. They are in fact criminals so profoundly stupid and unaware of their criminal options that they are too stupid to realize that renting an XBox from a Rent a Center and never making future payments is far less likely to earn them a bullet in the chest. They clearly have no understanding of risk-reward and end up dead within arms reach of an Xbox controller.
Ever wonder if they just like the feeling of power of taking it from someone else? And maybe beating them to a pulp to boot?
That’s why women voting fucked up the system. You can lie your whole 50year political life and end up as POTUS if you just give an appeal to emotions speech.
And it’s not just women, but any category which runs on emotions.