• @Potatos_are_not_friends
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    Dad shows a gun to show OP he’s a badass. Op doesn’t realize and shows his gun.

    Common American culture is that you’re supposed to show your gun on the third date with the family, not the first. You’re also supposed to have a Mexican standoff when you walk into the house, with dad aiming at you, you’re aiming at dad, dog aims at GF, etc. And if he’s lucky, they have a rousing game of Russian roulette before tapas.

    Totally understandable if you didn’t know. Just basic 2A knowledge every American learns about during elementary school.

      • @cosmicrookie
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        136 months ago

        Yeah. Real America sounds tougher than Sons of Anarchy

      • Queen HawlSera
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        36 months ago

        It’s important to remember if you’re ever in Los Angeles, New York, or Miami, all three of the major American cities.

    • @[email protected]
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      466 months ago

      I guess this is where the concept of the “nuclear family” comes from then? After the initial courtship hostilities, the escalation of the arms race is inevitable.

      • @captainlezbian
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        106 months ago

        Yes, by the time you have a steady relationship you’re at a place of Mutually Assured Dating

    • @SkyezOpen
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      336 months ago

      dad aiming at you, you’re aiming at dad, dog aims at GF, etc.

      The Aristocrats!

    • classic
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      186 months ago

      You start learning it in day care depending on the region

        • @A7thStone
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          176 months ago

          Some people can afford better load outs. Normal p2w bullshit.

        • @[email protected]
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          126 months ago

          Yeah, it does Give them a slightly unfair advantage over the active shooter, that’s why the cops had to wait, they were required to give them a head start.

          A surprising amount of rules involved in it.

        • @[email protected]
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          6 months ago

          Cheapskate parents, actually. Most parents get their kids a BALCS carrier with level III soft inserts, some ESAPI plates, and a level III or IIIa helmet. But some parents cheap out and just get their kid a backpack and split a set of plates between kids.

    • @zzx
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      66 months ago

      They taught me in kindergarten

      • @[email protected]
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        76 months ago

        The first sentence is real, the rest is just a fun bit of hyperbole. It really is not that common for an overprotective father to brandish a gun at his daughter’s new boyfriend, but it has happened enough times to become something of a trope.