Pumping gas in Philly

[Suck My Glock]

https://twitter.com/JasonFox29/status/1599954291938074624

 

[Boriqua]

Does this make you feel safer? Or uncomfortable.

After 9/11 the streets subways and buildings and airport were suddenly protected by police with rifles. It made me uncomfortable. I didn't feel safer. I felt like I lived in an occupied territory. I felt ... How fuked up must things be that I have to have men with rifles go through my backpack in order to feel safe. What kind of dystopian world did it become that I had to filter past men with rifles to go to the subway home. Didnt care for it at all.

Locking up bad guys for doing bad things and keeping them locked up for as long as allowed is a better answer than having to pump gas under the watchful eye and stern look of armed security.

 

[BigNate]

Depends on how they are behaving... but if they are acting in an alert and protective manner - I'd be more likely to stop there than somewhere else (assuming that it's an ugly neighborhood and I need to stop there for fuel).

In other words... "man with gun" does not bother me unless it's: "man with gun acting foolishly."

 

[OMart]

Lived near Philly about 25 years ago. Anything south of Germantown Pike Rd is a shithole. A big, filthy shithole.

 

[82echo]

I remember the first time I landed at an airport in Germany. Lots of cops carrying sub-machine guns. Freaked me out the first time.

 

[xerts1191]

I thought good guys were always wearing white

 

[gunpoorboy1]

Does this make you feel safer? Or uncomfortable.

After 9/11 the streets subways and buildings and airport were suddenly protected by police with rifles. It made me uncomfortable. I didn't feel safer. I felt like I lived in an occupied territory. I felt ... How fuked up must things be that I have to have men with rifles go through my backpack in order to feel safe. What kind of dystopian world did it become that I had to filter past men with rifles to go to the subway home. Didnt care for it at all.

Locking up bad guys for doing bad things and keeping them locked up for as long as allowed is a better answer than having to pump gas under the watchful eye and stern look of armed security.

So what's the owner to do while the liberals are letting the bad guys out and driving this business owner out of business. He can either close his business or protect his business. Sounds like this guy would rather feed his kids than worry about hurting someones feeling. I can't imagine being in his place or what I would do.

 

[Boriqua]

Does this make you feel safer? Or uncomfortable.

After 9/11 the streets subways and buildings and airport were suddenly protected by police with rifles. It made me uncomfortable. I didn't feel safer. I felt like I lived in an occupied territory. I felt ... How fuked up must things be that I have to have men with rifles go through my backpack in order to feel safe. What kind of dystopian world did it become that I had to filter past men with rifles to go to the subway home. Didnt care for it at all.

Locking up bad guys for doing bad things and keeping them locked up for as long as allowed is a better answer than having to pump gas under the watchful eye and stern look of armed security.

So what's the owner to do while the liberals are letting the bad guys out and driving this business owner out of business. He can either close his business or protect his business. Sounds like this guy would rather feed his kids than worry about hurting someones feeling. I can't imagine being in his place or what I would do.

The question in the tweet was "does this make you feel safer or uncomfortable?"

That is what I answered.