Every chud in my life is obsessed with someone breaking into their house and the situation being resolved with the discharge of a firearm. And these are people living in low crime areas out in the suburbs, with no pedestrians. It’s frustrating to talk with these people since their whole worldview is a racist panic over some imagined brown interloper invading their white fortresses.
One of my coworkers tells me he always pulls out his Glock to check the corners when he comes home in the evening. Another has a CCTV system and an AR15 by his bed. I personally don’t own a gun anymore because I don’t trust myself with one, and chuds will ask me what I’ll do if some mentally unwell person high on amphetamines decided to enter my apartment. I guess I’d leave or call an ambulance? It seems so unlikely of a scenario that even if I had a firearm I probably wouldn’t use it right, or even register this person as a threat quickly enough to do a John Wick style takedown.
How many home invasions are actually stopped this way? Do chuds all think they’re Robocop?
I have to imagine it’s some kind of coping strategy for precarity. People in the suburbs are scared to death of losing what they have and having to live among the lower classes. So they project these fears as poor violent minorities coming to take what they have as opposed to the accurate view of economic decline that’s actually pushing them to live among the lower class
anxiety about class precarity is as old as the ascendance of the bourgeoisie. a hereditary nobility always had their place simply by birth—even if they became cash-poor, but a burgher losing their wealth forfeits their social standing. early bourgeois-ruled places like Venice actually recreated that hereditary security with a hereditary citizenship that was frozen and required legislative approval to admit new persons/families