What's your threat model? how did you evaluate that? How does your kit cover it? How are you covering the gaps or new threats introduced by whatever you're doing?

I don't see much discussion of this, everybody is all training this give your guns to a trusted friend if you're having bad mental health that, at best. Even generally decent personalities like InRange don't push back against what's her face fully endorsing suburban paranoid fantasies but this kind of evaluation should be right up there with "you're going to carry your gun way more often that shooting it".

  • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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    8 months ago

    aye good points.

    the first group is full of confounding or secondary factors like "that noise at 3am is more likely to be a family member than an intruder" and anyone thinking they'll be able to draw on a mugger is delusional. That's something people should be thinking about, threat model analysis would tell us a carry gun probably isn't doing fuckall about a mugger.

    It's OK to not have threat models. It's OK to have unaddressed vulnerabilities. It's OK to just have guns because shooting is fun.

    of course, but if you're going to guns specifically for defense then i think it stops being ok to not think critically about it. If it's just personal defense there's a lot more "when and where?" or maybe bear spray is better than a magnum for actual bears on a hike kinda stuff. If shutting down a pogrom with (a show of) force is legitimately on the table then you probably have an actual militia and scouted out positions for sharpshooters in the neighborhood around the trans youth center and we're rapidly approaching rule 3.