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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Of course former law enforcement is going to own a Glock and have time on it. That's pretty much a given. They even have an officer purchase program.

https://us.glock.com/en/buy/blue-label-program

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why would you buy a gun and never shoot it? Just an odd question.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

That feeling of security. Not a good plan, but not everyone's good at planning.

[–] tal 4 points 1 month ago

A lot of collectors probably don't.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't own a gun but I could see owning one as a deterrent.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Poor deterrent if you never practice with it. Also it's not very safe if you never practice.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

She should challenge Trump to a competition at the range in lieu of another debate since he's too chicken shit to do one. He wouldn't do that either because he knows he'd embarrass himself.

[–] NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

That is a brilliant idea! I’d bet the hoplophobes could look past it too if it made Trump look like a chump.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t think I can conscientiously condone anyone putting a gun in lil Donnie’s tiny hands.

as a convicted felon he's not allowed possession of a firearm.

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We need to make the presidential and vice presidential USPSA match happen

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We are getting closer and closer to President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho winning his presidency in a cage match.

[–] tal 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

“I don’t believe it,” wrote David Hookstead, a reporter for OutKick, on X. “I’ll donate $100,000 to her campaign if she beats me in a shooting drill at a range of her choice with her Glock.”

Setting aside whether-or-not that would prove whether she's shot the thing, not worth it. She had something like 100 days to do the campaign, had to raise something like $1 billion. That's like $416k/hour, and that's not counting the fact that some of that has to be sleeping, eating, using the bathroom and such instead of fundraising. It'd take more than an hour to do a shooting match.

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These "challenges" are so annoying. Clearly the tactic is to present "if you [do absurdly specific and unreasonable thing] then I will [change my mind about something", and when inevitably the unreasonable request is not fulfilled, it's an excuse to continue believing whatever it was you believed before. Infuriating.

[–] Mesophar@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

And if/when they are successful at completing the unreasonable request, it's "huh, that's interesting. Must have been [nonsesne reason], and now you have to [moving of goalposts]."