Nope, it makes you less safe, too, especially if the threat is closer than 25 feet. They have the opportunity to wrest the gun from your control and use it against you.
... anything well-documented ...
There would be a lot more well-documented ancient things if racists hadn't actively destroyed ancient documents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu for example.
Care to elaborate?
That is a painful baguette.
They all are, but so is that one.
There is always a subtext of racism in these claims, because the ancient people that are referred to are always more brown, and surely brown people couldn't have accomplished anything of significance on their own.
And in this specific case, none of the workers were street-level, getting into randos cars. That doesn't necessarily mean that all of the workers were willing participants, but I would bet that with the level of clientele involved, almost all were.
So you know, if you have taken a perishable item from a cooler in a grocery store and later decide that you don't want it, the store has to throw it away.
More than twice. I assume you're referring to the US Civil War and January 6, 2021.
- The former colonies after the American Revolution only barely came together under the Articles of Confederation, which themselves were insufficient to hold the nation together.
- Icky compromises were made in order to form the US Constitution, and those compromises arguably set the long stage for the later Civil War.
- In the 1940s, there was a push for fascism in the US.
- McCarthyism in the 1950s and continuing anti-Communist sentiment through the 1960s did a lot of work to silence any opposition
- In the wake of the 2000 presidential election, there was the Brooks Brothers Riot, that put an end to vote counting in Florida, handing the election to Bush.
- After 9/11, the PATRIOT Act created a surveillance state that we still labor under.
I'm sure there are more.
For a gun to be effective against an attacker, that attacker needs to be about 25 feet away or farther when you decide to shoot them. Closer than that, it’s a melee before you get an accurate shot off.
This means that you need to escalate a situation to gunplay way before you’re in actual physical danger, in most cases.
Unless you’re walking along brandishing your weapon, in order to be ready for a possible threat. This in itself escalates any situation you’re in to “one with a gun in it,” whether you’re ever in any danger or not.
Small arms are offensive weapons. They cannot be used for defense without making otherwise safe conditions unsafe, or by escalating a possibly threatening situation into a definitely dangerous one.
It pleases me to know that Kamala Harris lives rent-free in his head.
Those are also good examples - but Europeans most definitely sought to destroy any quipu they found.