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You caught a man with his hand in your girlfriend's purse, and his punishment was a "hey, not cool" and 15 seconds of awkward escalator?
No fucking wonder that happens CONSTANTLY when an awkward 15 second escalator ride is the punishment for getting caught.
God what a bunch of pussies.
Correct me if I am wrong but isn't average American scared to walk to church without a gun of there are 80 year old homeless people on the way?
I haven’t even seen a gun in years. You’re out of touch with reality.
I'm an American and I see guns literally every day. Are you not counting cops, security guards, and soldiers?
I have no reason to come into contact with cops, security guards, or soldiers on a regular basis. I can only assume your “literally” is facetious as well because literally every day is absurd.
And in the context of replying to someone making claims against the “average American” carrying guns, I think it’s appropriate to omit people carrying for work, yes.
Do you not see the guns on people carrying for work? I do in fact literally see guns every single day.
I didn’t say I don’t see them, I said I would omit them. As in not count them. In direct response to your question.
Literally every day? Literally every. Single. Day?
Even if there’s a cop on every street corner waving his gun in the air, you’ve never stayed home on a saturday? You’ve never gone camping? Never spent the day anywhere where there weren’t guns?
Ok so have you literally not seen a gun in years? Counting carrying for work?
I never dropped a literally.
I have no memory of seeing a gun in the last three years, but I make no claim to a perfect memory. Surely there were guns at the airport, but I didn’t particularly look at them or notice them.
But again, I am omitting people carrying for work, so I’m not sure why you are bringing it up a third time.
Ok that makes more sense than what you initially wrote