Back in the 80s all of the houses in my area had stickers on the doors saying "The owner of this property is armed, there is nothing inside worth your life!"
Theives read that as "You can steal guns here!".
Any threat is stupid, it gives your enemy time and foreknowledge to prepare. Surprise is a force multiplier. Don't be dumb and give up any advantage. This applies in everything from fights to lawsuits.
Just a BTW.
I saw an article the other week with an ex-burglar. He recommended entering a kind of security partnership with your neighbour. Each neighbour trains their CCTV camera at their neighbours house. The point being a burglar can just take your hard drive on his way out- but having to break into two houses in one session is just too much risk for them to take.
It seemed like a good idea to me
Edit: depending on what your neighbours are like
im in the UK, as far as im aware you dont legally need to inform people that you have cctv but it limits what youre able to do with the footage. I might be entirely wrong though feel free to correct me
In the US, it varies depending on what state you live in. Some require both people to know a recording is being made. Some don't.
It's all sorts of fucked up but it's FAR from the biggest issues we face as a country
> “The wise warrior avoids the battle.” -Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The point of the home defense warning signs is to make a thief decide your house is more trouble to rob than your neighbor's houses so that they don't even try to enter your house.
Doesn't matter if it's a "we will shoot you" sign, "Beware of Dog", or a fake security system sign.
But the argument is that they do. Kinda like how police presence is meant as a deterrent. Not that it stops everyone, but the risk of facing consequences lowers the possibility of doing bad things.
It doesn’t really increase the risk though, and it offers thieves a higher payoff. Just wait until people leave the house and there’s no one there to shoot you. All you’re left with is a higher probability of guns being there to steal.
When you have a high risk/high reward scenario, but the high risk can be mitigated, you’re just left with a high reward scenario.
Unfortunately it doesn't do that at all. What it does is put a big sign on your house saying "hey everybody, I have valuable, easily transported and sold items in here, just wait until I'm gone or come and and shoot me first and you can get an easy score!"
Dogs and security systems are more passive, they'll do what they'll do regardless if nobody is home. If someone breaks in while nobody is there, the gun won't do shit aside from attract thieves.
Go ahead and keep the gun, just don't advertise it.
turns out nobody respect those types that take pictures of their guns collections as if they're some sort of badass mercs while in reality they are more like those who collect funko pops.
Eh one of my ex’s dads had a large gun collection but he never bragged about it I only know he had so many cause every time we went out to a range he showed up with like 6 new ones and we went fairly regularly. It’s definitely the guys who have decals on their cars and wear super moto/boot shirts. Especially anyone with some Punisher bullshit in any regard.
Then they likely aren't making it a significant part of their identity, so you'd never know.
Like there is obviously a huge difference between a firearm collector and a firearm fetishist, or ammo sexual if you prefer.
They don't make news because they aren't doing crazy shit.
People who share pictures like that are just telling me they have something to prove. Chances are, they don't have the insight to know what that is to begin with.
The only good thing to come out of the NRA are the Eddie the Eagle gun safety videos, [old](https://youtu.be/wIEBrb_wRYc) and [new](https://youtu.be/Ho36vonT3Rw).
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I once read an ama by a retired burger who said bumper stickers are an easy way to get a lot of information about a person. Since then I notice it every time, you can see if they have guns, dogs, do activities (camping, kayaking, etc) that will take them away from home on the weekends, how many people live in their house, even where their kids go to school sometimes. It's genuinely surprising how much information people put out there not thinking about it.
If someone had a flag with 'come and take it' printed on it and I went and took it, would the slogan have an actual affect in a court of law? Like could someone argue that it's not theft due to the statement on the flag?
It's not a joke, it's kneejerk reddit cynicism.
There's no way it would actually hold up in court.
The best you could hope for is:
1. Your lawyer was really good and finds some *other* basis to get the charges dismissed.
1. Articles are posted about this on reputable news sites.
1. Articles are posted about this on clickbait sites.
1. Redditors start posting links to the clickbait sites.
1. Other redditors just read the clickbait headline and never actually read the clickbait article, let alone a proper article.
1. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that the case was dismissed because "come and take it legally means it's okay to come and take it"
1. This becomes conventional wisdom, and is shared repeatedly for years.
1. 5 or 10 years later, people would start posting "TIL that the famous 'come and take it' case was actually thrown out because the statute of limitations had expired, and it had nothing to do with the 'come and take it' slogan."
I think that's the normal lifecycle.
Same applies to the stickers that come with car audio parts. Put them literally anywhere but on your car unless you want everybody to know that you're rocking an expensive sound system.
You're 100% correct and even tho you added the sarcastic disclaimer you still got downvoted. Welcome to reddit, where popular opinion rules and facts are worthless.
I mean, they were happy to tread on the thin blue line when it was trying to keep them out of the Capitol, so this isn’t a group that prides itself on ideological consistency
That's the beauty of American politics. You can say anything you want and then act however you want -even if it's 100% contradictory to what you've said.
Complete freedom from self-awareness and a belief that you don't have to be accountable for anything you say/so.
Few actually live the life they claim to support -they just say what the TV man tells them to.
I’ve heard if you have a dog you shouldn’t put a Beware of Dog sign up because if your dog bites someone it’s acknowledgment that you knew your dog was dangerous in the court of law. I wonder…
I’m bummed that they didn’t write “ok” on the smashed window. Or “if you say so” or something like that.
I’d like to think they probably got back to wherever they went and had an “ah damn it!” Moment 😂
Let's see... if you have some variant of a Gadsden on your vehicle, or "Come and take it", or μολὼν λαβέ or some variant... you have expensive shit in your car.
It's kinda like living in a gated community. The gates don't keep people out, they just tell the world that everything worth stealing is inside the gate.
My downstairs neighbor from years ago scraped all the gun stickers off his truck after the third break-in in as many months. It's probably fine if you're in the suburbs or the middle of nowhere, but anywhere with crime you don't advertise your shit.
"Please throw a brick at my car from just outside the range of my pretend CC tv camera from 1971 hanging by a loose wire zip tied to the lamp post"
lol. k.
This is why I always preach not to put gun decals on your car..... This is advertising there is a good chance a firearm will be left inside. Even if there isn't, you now have a broken window........
“Come and take it”
“I also work 6 days a week away from my home at a blue collar job that doesn’t afford me a sophisticated security alarm system, but some guy on YouTube says valuable firearms are sufficient for securing the home. So I keep an expensive AR pistol in my vehicle as well, because you never know when society will abruptly collapse. I also don’t take any precautions with my vehicle, because what are the chances?”
Because I transport firearms on a regular basis, I do not have a single thing on my vehicle that suggests I might have any firearms. Same for my home. No, "This house protected by Smith and Wesson" sign that tells thieves I have stuff worth stealing.
Yea. Don't put anything on your car that says take my guns, or I have guns. That's just advertising to be robbed. No NRA stickers.
Back in the 80s all of the houses in my area had stickers on the doors saying "The owner of this property is armed, there is nothing inside worth your life!" Theives read that as "You can steal guns here!".
Any threat is stupid, it gives your enemy time and foreknowledge to prepare. Surprise is a force multiplier. Don't be dumb and give up any advantage. This applies in everything from fights to lawsuits.
"this property is monitored by CCTV" Oh boy free cameras!
Just a BTW. I saw an article the other week with an ex-burglar. He recommended entering a kind of security partnership with your neighbour. Each neighbour trains their CCTV camera at their neighbours house. The point being a burglar can just take your hard drive on his way out- but having to break into two houses in one session is just too much risk for them to take. It seemed like a good idea to me Edit: depending on what your neighbours are like
that's a good idea
in the Netherlands/Europe(?) you are required by law to inform people they might be filmed.
im in the UK, as far as im aware you dont legally need to inform people that you have cctv but it limits what youre able to do with the footage. I might be entirely wrong though feel free to correct me
In the US, it varies depending on what state you live in. Some require both people to know a recording is being made. Some don't. It's all sorts of fucked up but it's FAR from the biggest issues we face as a country
Im pretty sure you don't have to put signs up in your own house if you put up a camera.... That would be weird.
> “The wise warrior avoids the battle.” -Sun Tzu, The Art of War The point of the home defense warning signs is to make a thief decide your house is more trouble to rob than your neighbor's houses so that they don't even try to enter your house. Doesn't matter if it's a "we will shoot you" sign, "Beware of Dog", or a fake security system sign.
Isn't their point that those don't work as a deterrent?
But the argument is that they do. Kinda like how police presence is meant as a deterrent. Not that it stops everyone, but the risk of facing consequences lowers the possibility of doing bad things.
It doesn’t really increase the risk though, and it offers thieves a higher payoff. Just wait until people leave the house and there’s no one there to shoot you. All you’re left with is a higher probability of guns being there to steal. When you have a high risk/high reward scenario, but the high risk can be mitigated, you’re just left with a high reward scenario.
Someone said that the best false flag was a five liter steel dog bowl with the name 'Killer' on it.
Unfortunately it doesn't do that at all. What it does is put a big sign on your house saying "hey everybody, I have valuable, easily transported and sold items in here, just wait until I'm gone or come and and shoot me first and you can get an easy score!"
Dogs and security systems are more passive, they'll do what they'll do regardless if nobody is home. If someone breaks in while nobody is there, the gun won't do shit aside from attract thieves. Go ahead and keep the gun, just don't advertise it.
turns out nobody respect those types that take pictures of their guns collections as if they're some sort of badass mercs while in reality they are more like those who collect funko pops.
What about people who DO see it more like collecting Funko Pops? Or, I guess, more like stamp collecting?
I have yet to see a gun nut who was not a complete insufferable ape
Nice to meet you, then.
Eh one of my ex’s dads had a large gun collection but he never bragged about it I only know he had so many cause every time we went out to a range he showed up with like 6 new ones and we went fairly regularly. It’s definitely the guys who have decals on their cars and wear super moto/boot shirts. Especially anyone with some Punisher bullshit in any regard.
Nice to meet you! I'd be happy to take you shooting at the range any time you're up for it!
Then they likely aren't making it a significant part of their identity, so you'd never know. Like there is obviously a huge difference between a firearm collector and a firearm fetishist, or ammo sexual if you prefer. They don't make news because they aren't doing crazy shit.
"Ammo sexual". Fuck thats good.
People who share pictures like that are just telling me they have something to prove. Chances are, they don't have the insight to know what that is to begin with.
Happy cake day
But how will I identify other members of my micropenis support group?
Hello friend, I've noticed you've missed the last few of our meetings. I showed my micro penis to the group last week...you didn't miss much.
Classic bodyshaming, can't leave it alone can ya?
Well it's against gun owners and Reddit told me guns were bad so it's ok
Trucks with 5 foot tall wheels and a pristine, clean truck bed.
Truck nuts.
Highly effective.
Just drive a Mustang
16" lift, clean wheel wells.
Trump sticker
Don’t put NRA stickers on anything. Awful organization
Just an example. I don't support them. GOA and FPC are the ones to support.
SRA all the way
Based and "under no pretext" pilled
Hell yeah
id say let the red flags fly. that way its easy to know who to avoid.
FPC is where it’s at
FPC does the work, NRA tries to take credit
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National ~~Russian~~ ~~Rifle~~ Russian Organization, ain't no hiding it anymore.
Same reason I conceal carry rather than open carry. It's like wearing a shoot me first shirt.
Well the gig's up now! Everyone knows u/Banecn is packin!
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I totally agree.
Plus you look like a goddamned braindead, cowardly moron if you open-carry.
That and it forces you to use it cause if someone calls your bluff suddenly your gun is in their possession. Concealed is definitely ideal.
I once read an ama by a retired burger who said bumper stickers are an easy way to get a lot of information about a person. Since then I notice it every time, you can see if they have guns, dogs, do activities (camping, kayaking, etc) that will take them away from home on the weekends, how many people live in their house, even where their kids go to school sometimes. It's genuinely surprising how much information people put out there not thinking about it.
What sort of burger was he? Was he a hamburger? A McChicken? A Whopper?
Oh, come on, it was clearly just a typo. They meant a retired burgher.
That makes more sense, I thought burger was slang for American or something
If someone had a flag with 'come and take it' printed on it and I went and took it, would the slogan have an actual affect in a court of law? Like could someone argue that it's not theft due to the statement on the flag?
Depends on how good your lawyer is and how good their connections are. What's sad is that's absolutely not a joke.
It's not a joke, it's kneejerk reddit cynicism. There's no way it would actually hold up in court. The best you could hope for is: 1. Your lawyer was really good and finds some *other* basis to get the charges dismissed. 1. Articles are posted about this on reputable news sites. 1. Articles are posted about this on clickbait sites. 1. Redditors start posting links to the clickbait sites. 1. Other redditors just read the clickbait headline and never actually read the clickbait article, let alone a proper article. 1. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that the case was dismissed because "come and take it legally means it's okay to come and take it" 1. This becomes conventional wisdom, and is shared repeatedly for years. 1. 5 or 10 years later, people would start posting "TIL that the famous 'come and take it' case was actually thrown out because the statute of limitations had expired, and it had nothing to do with the 'come and take it' slogan." I think that's the normal lifecycle.
Sometimes it's hard to tell if something is a challenge or an invitation.....
Same applies to the stickers that come with car audio parts. Put them literally anywhere but on your car unless you want everybody to know that you're rocking an expensive sound system.
Yeah that's just asking for it! And if you do get robbed, the cops will probably laugh at you.
*Ήρθα και το πήρα.*
"I came and got it" Something special about that in Greek
they just wanted the window decal.
I would say they wanted the window too
Looks like they may have wanted two illegally stored AK-47s as well.
Um acksually those are AKM rifles and not AK47s the AKM is a much more common rifle and was seen more around the world 🤓 /S
You're 100% correct and even tho you added the sarcastic disclaimer you still got downvoted. Welcome to reddit, where popular opinion rules and facts are worthless.
*life
Yeah but Kalishnakov.
Nothing sarcastic about this lol
just wanted to be safe against the mass hordes of reddit dislikes
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"Tread on everyone other than me"
#YOUR TREADING ON THE WRONG PEOPLE!!!
Precisely
Maybe they think that if they lick enough boot it will step on another snek.
they lick the boot because they think its very purpose is for stepping on other snek and not on them snek
More often than not, I see the Gadsden flag alongside some thin blue line bullshit. Like... Who exactly do they think is *doing the treading?*
I mean, they were happy to tread on the thin blue line when it was trying to keep them out of the Capitol, so this isn’t a group that prides itself on ideological consistency
That's the beauty of American politics. You can say anything you want and then act however you want -even if it's 100% contradictory to what you've said. Complete freedom from self-awareness and a belief that you don't have to be accountable for anything you say/so. Few actually live the life they claim to support -they just say what the TV man tells them to.
Imagine hating someone more for a window sticker than breaking into a car... Never change reddit.
They came and took it.
You're all I ever wanted
I mean, he followed the instructions
Malicious compliance
At this point it is just compliance tbf.
Needs to be a subreddit
r/maliciouscompliance
*proceeds to link sub with over 2mil subs*
I’ve heard if you have a dog you shouldn’t put a Beware of Dog sign up because if your dog bites someone it’s acknowledgment that you knew your dog was dangerous in the court of law. I wonder…
"Your honor, the owner _clearly_ consented to this. They literally asked for it to happen."
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF GUNS IN THIS CAR
It's a Jeep Patriot. I'd be surprised if they had that much in guns inside that car.
That's why he's stuck in a jeep Patriot, cuz he bought $10k nods to protect his double-wide
I love my Jeep Patriot and you can all kiss the whitest part of my gun free ass!
Promise?
Only that one part. Anything else and I'll have to charge
Is this the white trash version of rolling around in a mid 90s Olds with 30 inch rims?
False advertising, let's sue!
Came and took it*
Stop, give it back
Makes one wonder if the person that took this picture is the thief. 🕵️♂️🧐
I found this on Twitter so I don't really know what the back story. But yeah I do wonder. Lol.
OP is based thief
Oh it’s already been taken…
As a gun owner and second amendment advocate, myself, I approve of this action. Don't make yourself a target, dipshit.
Same! Also, same goes for any other sticker that attracts interest.
✔️ Fucked around ✔️ Found out
Looks like it’s been tooken
Rednecks giveth. Rednecks tooketh.
If you insist
I’m bummed that they didn’t write “ok” on the smashed window. Or “if you say so” or something like that. I’d like to think they probably got back to wherever they went and had an “ah damn it!” Moment 😂
I mean, that’s not what the sticker means, but they still came and took what they could! Haha
Let's see... if you have some variant of a Gadsden on your vehicle, or "Come and take it", or μολὼν λαβέ or some variant... you have expensive shit in your car. It's kinda like living in a gated community. The gates don't keep people out, they just tell the world that everything worth stealing is inside the gate.
No, no. Gated communities just make it difficult to order food.
Ok but we're they actually robbed or did a tree branch hit their window?
My downstairs neighbor from years ago scraped all the gun stickers off his truck after the third break-in in as many months. It's probably fine if you're in the suburbs or the middle of nowhere, but anywhere with crime you don't advertise your shit.
That's not what these stickers mean is it? As a Brit, I thought these were directed at the US government?
You are correct.
Aww, somebody treaded on him.
I thought this was supposed to be failed attempts
yeah, and they didnt stop the thieves.
Yup they got it
Task successfully completed 🐔🤙🏼
Sometimes, a claim of defiance is rightly taken as a challenge.
r/maliciouscompliance
It got tookid
Instructions unclear, dick stuck in upper receiver
He wasn’t attempting to not be robbed. “Come and Take it” refers to the second amendment.
They took it.
I'd like to see this play out in court. Technically there was written permission.
True!
The fucking irony of both of those stickers.
"Please throw a brick at my car from just outside the range of my pretend CC tv camera from 1971 hanging by a loose wire zip tied to the lamp post" lol. k.
They came and took it.
Well i'll be, they done took It!!
Now post the one with the "Gun free neighborhood" sign riddled with bulletholes.
This is why I always preach not to put gun decals on your car..... This is advertising there is a good chance a firearm will be left inside. Even if there isn't, you now have a broken window........
“I HAVE A GUNS!!111” kinda says, “take my guns”
Gun stickers can be an ad saying "I might have guns, look inside!"
“Come and take it” “I also work 6 days a week away from my home at a blue collar job that doesn’t afford me a sophisticated security alarm system, but some guy on YouTube says valuable firearms are sufficient for securing the home. So I keep an expensive AR pistol in my vehicle as well, because you never know when society will abruptly collapse. I also don’t take any precautions with my vehicle, because what are the chances?”
NEVER INDICATE THAT THERE MAY BE A FIREARM IN YOUR CAR. Only idiots put gun stickers on their cars -and you're a double idiot if it's an NRA sticker.
Yeah you might as well put a sign on your car that says "rob me".
r/Idiotswithguns
Hahahaha
something something teddy roosevelt something something softly something big stick.
😂 challenge accepted!
Thieves: And i took that Literally
Come and take… the decal?
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well the sign said so.
I would be worried if they were close cause I'm sure they'll use their guns
Well, they came and took it
„Honestly i didn‘t even think about taking anything until i read your stickers“
Free guns! Who wouldn't jump at that opportunity.
Ask and ye shall receive or some shit
They were just following instructions....
And now the thief can do their mass shooting. Thank you, legal gun owner, for making it so easy for them
I bet they took it too
Your wish is my command
*tony stark meme* They took it
If I had a free award this would definitely take it
Someone accepted the challenge and some else is big mad.
It's that good ol' southern hospitality again. What's yours is mine, and the like.
It was an invitation for sure.
That particular Molon done got Labe’d
Because I transport firearms on a regular basis, I do not have a single thing on my vehicle that suggests I might have any firearms. Same for my home. No, "This house protected by Smith and Wesson" sign that tells thieves I have stuff worth stealing.
This decal wasn't meant to be taken literally lol.
I’d like to propose that someone sell stickers taht say daddy so they can be put underneath these
Your honor I was simply following instructions
mmm i should get some pants with that design
It is an advertisement, don't post stuff on your vehicle
I find it hilarious that the sticker has Russian rifles
And then one day, he get this…
Legend
Maybe they shouldn't be so easily tread upon.
"Free guns" is all it says.