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Past-Adhesiveness150 t1_j28pfag wrote

Get some pepper spray, & look into getting a licence to carry. Natick is a nice place, but the world & country as a whole can be unpredictable. Too many nut bags & whack-a-doodles out there. Imo, if you're walking in Natick, you're probably walking everywhere else too. Better to be prepared for the worst & hope for the best.

My wife had a friend who took the T from school downtown to work in Cambridge to home at night. She'd wrap herself in a scarf under her hood & carried a rock in a sock in her hand at all times.

My grandfather, back in the day, would go to the dog track..... a lot. He always carried a cattle prod. ( looked like a big mag-lite & just as heavy, but could also zap you )

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Sufficient-Opposite3 t1_j295gtf wrote

That old adage that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun? It's pretty much been disproven by now.

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Past-Adhesiveness150 t1_j2970st wrote

Your privilege is showing

Please tell Op how you'd stop a group of drunk rapey guys at night, when no1 wants to get involved. Call the police? Get an Uber? Or would you not put yourself in that situation?

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Sufficient-Opposite3 t1_j2aui41 wrote

My privilege? Whatever the hell that means. Can you say Uvalde? Or the Walmart in El Paso? Or any number of other times where having a gun did no good? Or maybe I should quote gun death stats to you, including intentional, accidental and suicide. Pepper spray? Sure. Gun? No

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Past-Adhesiveness150 t1_j2aya7v wrote

Can you guess why you never hear about good people with guns, stopping mass shootings? It's because they don't end up being mass shootings. 1 happened a few months ago.

Guessing it doesn't make great ratings either.

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