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The key is to bring your own gun.

My bank experience is severely lacking in handguns. Was Bitcoin the answer all this time?!

At the bank the firearms are just hidden from you. They're there.

There are definitely no firearms at most if not all banks in Canada, aside from the Brinks truck drivers for the ten minutes they’re refilling an ATM. In fact, thinking about it, I’ve never seen a security guard stationed at a bank.

But guns are extremely restricted in Canada, so that isn't as much of a relevant contrast. Even so: banks have their guns ;P.

https://www.westernstandard.news/news/bank-of-canada-was-sti...

Probably only if you live in dangerous is of the world.

I think I'd rather have a gunless transaction altogether :D

You would be just as vulnerable, except without the protection of Mutually Assured Destruction — just whomever is stronger wins if it goes sideways.

Yeah, but I don’t want to be in a situation where “mutually assured destruction” is even a thing. I live in a country where I could get a license and get a gun, I’ve never felt the need to as it’s continually safer year after year. If I meet someone here who feels the need to arm themselves for safety in public, I am assuming that person is a little unhinged and that getting involved with them has the potential for trouble.

This may be locale-specific though, it could be a totally normal thing to walk around with a gun elsewhere.

We all live in a Hobbesian state of nature. Most people are vaguely aware of this but only really get it if they find themselves in a terrible moment when they realize that no one else and no system is coming to save them.

Where I live, I wouldn't be surprised if I walked past a handful of people with a gun in their waistband at the grocery store. Or a couple at the gas station. You don't even need a permit to do so here. And I have yet to end up in the middle of a shootout. Probably because the risk is too high for criminals as the barrier to entry for defending yourself is essentially zero, except for the price of a gun and ammo.

The nice thing about that is it has a "herd immunity" effect. If many people carry around you, but the criminals don't know which person that is, they're likely to refrain from picking on anybody directly. You don't even have to carry yourself to benefit from it.

The only crime that happens often in this city, despite that, is parked & vacant cars getting smashed into and robbed. Because it only happens when nobody's looking.

Yeah, I think it’s location-specific, maybe where you are wearing a gun at (say) the local shop is a totally normal thing, but here it would be really fucking weird and possibly even a cause to be worried

I don't want to be in that kind of situation either.

I can't comment any further without going way off-topic from the article about LocalBitcoins.

If you wanna go off-piste it’s totally fine! This is an interesting topic, in my opinion, and it’s not like there’s any bad blood or conflict. Just people in different places with different norms and experiences.

Not your gun, not your bitcoin

Not your DNA, not your gun

They key is to bring your own sniper

I assure all people that I meet up with that the dead man’s switch attached to the tactical nuke in my backpack is fully functional

This guy Americas

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