Call me old-fashioned, but you should be able to ring a doorbell, get in the wrong car in a parking lot, or drive down the wrong driveway without getting shot at, injured or killed.
@georgetakei It's the guns, but it isn't just the guns. It's the paranoia. These people spend all their time consuming Fox News, Newsmax, and right wing talk radio and it's all about fear. Antifa and young thugs are coming to attack you! They are heavily armed! No one will help you! Your only defense is to arm yourself. Have guns? You need more guns, a better gun than your imaginary opponent has. And we'll pass "stand your ground" laws so you can safely kill anyone who you think is a threat. Don't hesitate or they'll kill you first! That's how they are taught to think.
@not2b @georgetakei
There was a young couple, Mexican American father, woman, two young kids, that decided to take their bus conversion RV to visit, Forks Washington - famous from the movie Twilight. Unfortunately at the same time, during BLM protests, paranoid conservatives on Facebook were spreading the rumour that "antifa" was send out bus loads of arsonists from the cities. Gun nuts cut down some trees, trapping this family on a forest service road and...
@not2b @georgetakei
...an armed mob of random guys, alerted by the local gun store guy, insisted on searching their bus. Eventually one person drove out & brought some teens to help clear the road & they got out of there. The guys searching the bus didn't even f***ing clear the road for them when they found out that they were wrong, and nobody got arrested or charged with any crime - because white old boomers get away with stuff that would get any ethnicity jailed.