u/iwanttobelievv 5,397 karma POSTS COMMENTS ABOUT Best Side Note iwanttobelievv • 35d
In some states, you don't even have a duty to retreat.

Idk if he wants pets or im just bad at piano iwanttobelievv • 36d
Take notes.

Hunters of Reddit,what did you see out there that made you not want to go back into the woods? iwanttobelievv • 36d
decided our roof was the best place to summon the bitches

...did it work? asking for a friend.

Florida Man iwanttobelievv • 38d
Florida man with no arms charged with stabbing Chicago tourist

AITA for telling my boyfriend I don't want a penis? iwanttobelievv • 39d
dirty ass dangle berries

Kinda rolls off the tongue, don't it? I cannot stop laughing at this, I'm crying.

North Carolina proposes laws allowing teachers to carry guns in schools iwanttobelievv • 39d
If this were an actual policy, there wouldn't be any what ifs about it. There would be set procedure. The most obvious answer is that teachers would volunteer, probably ones already comfortable with guns. Hobby shooters already have more shooting experience than the average cop. As far as tactical training, unless it's some sort of school-shooter specific training it would be a bad idea. We aren't arming teachers to go looking for the the threat, they don't need to know how to clear a room. Procedure for a shooter in all the schools I've worked in is to lock the door, turn out the lights, move away from any doors and stay quiet. This means that you have 25 kids piled in a corner away from the door. An armed teacher would respond only of their classroom door was breached by the gunman, and if that's the case the teacher could prevent so much needless loss of life. I keep saying this, it's always teachers or the students themselves that get shot or killed trying to help themselves or others during school shootings. Not the cops, who sometimes can't or won't make entry on the building. I guarantee that a kids teacher cares about their lives way more than any random cop who responds to the call, and say what you will but if you're a teacher and those kids are in your classroom it's ultimately your responsibility to see to their well-being. As far as a kid grabbing a teacher's gun, holsters have different levels of retention that makes it almost impossible to get it out, especially if it's underneath your clothes. People think that conceal carry is very obvious, but it's pretty difficult to tell of it's being done correctly.

Teachers carrying doesn't seem to have had any negative impacts where it's already legal. In fact, I can find more stories of cops leaving their guns laying around in schools than armed teachers. Is it the right answer? Hard to say, but I'm not against it. I also don't know that I'd want to be the teacher carrying. It's tough. I think the best bet is to up our country's mental healthcare game, but at least something is being done in an attempt to make schools safer (than they generally already are).

San Diego Installs More than 3,000 Cameras and Sensors Along Streets iwanttobelievv • 40d
I think accounts have to be so old before users can post here. There's always a handful of comments in limbo in every thread because of it.

Disney closes $71B deal for Fox entertainment assets iwanttobelievv • 40d
Spiderman is Marvel, isn't that owned by Disney as well?

Vet eats meal from dog bowl so that a scared and starving rescue does the same iwanttobelievv • 40d
As far as I can tell, my region uses vet for veterinarian. For veterans it's split between vet and "vet'ran". There's too many daggone letters in everything.

2/3 of Voters Say Amazon Cancelling Queens HQ Bad for NY iwanttobelievv • 40d
"...would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city, reversing course after politicians and activists objected..."

Michigan Lab Stops Pesticide Testing On Beagles iwanttobelievv • 40d
Someone in another thread pointed out (and this is definitely not to say that I personally support testing on animals) that it's likely due to products the US exports. There are countries that require animal testing for the goods to be sold there.

Federal appeals court upholds flipping off a cop is protected by 1st Amendment iwanttobelievv • 42d
So it's understandable that they smack around their wives and kids at a rate much higher than the general population because they have stressful jobs? And then, unlike others who beat the misses, cops also continue to have state-sanctioned access to a firearm after they're done assaulting another human being.

What is the weirdest technique you use to get to sleep, and how well does it work? iwanttobelievv • 43d
I close my eyes and try to make up a story. As detailed as possible. I never make it far but it's fun. It's kind of like counting sheep I guess.

Which Movie, Do you believe, had the greatest movie cast of all time? iwanttobelievv • 43d
Fury

What’s a song that has a happy beat but sad lyrics? iwanttobelievv • 43d
I love Dirty Paws.

What’s a song that has a happy beat but sad lyrics? iwanttobelievv • 43d
"But if you leave me

And love another

You'll regret it all someday."

I always thought that song was mildly menacing.

What's your favorite "my dad/mom's the coolest" moment from your childhood? iwanttobelievv • 43d
My parents weren't exactly cool. They weren't insanely strict, but they were definitely my parents and not my friends. Both retired cops, hard-working, nice folks. They really hated my tortured teenager phase. They didn't understand the combat boots, the blue hair dye, the mohawks. But I made good grades, didn't do drugs and was generally a good kid so they didn't hassle me too much aside from making it clear that they didn't like it. Well, I was in Walmart one day with my sweet mom and we're shopping when some man starts to loudly comment on me being a freak and making jokes. I've never seen my mom yell at anyone like that before, but she whipped around and chewed this guy up one side and down the other for being a grown man picking on a fifteen year old girl. As she put her arm around mine and we walked away she turned back and snarled, "maybe she'll grow out of it, but you'll be an idiot forever." Then strolled along. It's nothing big, but when you're a kid you really remember when someone stands up for you like that. It's when I realized my mom was really awesome, and honestly there's no one else I'd rather have going to bat for me. Nobody talks shit about her babies. It's been over a decade since then and I definitely grew out of the style, but I'll never forget that guy and my mom laying into him at Walmart that day. Everytime I see some kid with some wild hair, I always try to tell them how cool it is.

If you had to fight a fictional character, who would it be? iwanttobelievv • 43d
Tiny Tim from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

I think I could take him. Not so tough without the crutches.

What was the worst nightmare you’ve ever had? iwanttobelievv • 43d
It was so vivid and real I still remember it perfectly after several years. I was standing in line in a hallway to board an amusement ride. The hallway was unremarkable, just gray with those round lights that have the cages over the bulbs hanging from the ceiling. Kind of an industrial feel. I didn't know the people around me, but there were probably about fifty of us. The ride we were waiting on was one of those movie theater kind of rides, but when we get into the room it's really barren. There are no high-tech moving seats, it's all stadium-style concrete bleachers on one side of the room facing a screen on a wall. So we all start shuffling in and taking our seats. Everything was cement: walls, ceilings, floor. There was a metal box bolted to the floor at the center, between the seats and the screen. I felt uneasy, and I remember how sweaty my hands felt against the handrail I was using to steady myself as I went up the stairs toward a "good seat". When everyone was seated, the heavy metal door swings closed with an audible lock and a loud buzzer sounds. Then the lights go down, and a single red bub lights the room. I looked down at my shoes--I can even remember which flats I was wearing--and I noticed a round metal drain right between my feet and it struck me as odd. Suddenly the projector turned on, and I actually don't remember a lot of what was being played on the screen. All black and white, very blurry and disorienting and uncomfortable to watch. Brief glimpses of faces, objects, etc. Then a whirring noise, but no one seems to notice. As the whirring gets louder, the metal box on the floor starts to click, a panel at the front slides open. I shit you not, several robotic serpentine arms shot out from it and at the tip of each arm was a circular saw. They started to rip through the crowd, and panic started. People running, trapped, getting sawed in twain. I started to try to make it down the bleachers, climbing down over the seats when I got too scared and tried to hide in the floor space, hoping I wouldn't be "seen". As I laid there, trying to be still, a man above me fell and started tumbling down the seats and grabbed onto me to try to keep himself from slipping closer to the box. His hands gripped my shirt and he was dragging me down with him. I felt bad, but I didn't want to die and I tried to push him away just as a saw tore through him and he was pulled back. I was yanked along and fell, rolling down a few more steps and smacking my head on the concrete floor. When I opened my eyes I was starting right at the box, just a foot or so from my face. But the tentacle saws were gone, everyone else was dead and the room was quiet. Maybe it's over, I thought, terrified to move when suddenly a saw shoots out of the box right toward my face. Then I woke up.