That wasn’t a threat. “Don’t try anything I have a gun” is a threat, not “Come up for dabs fyi I have a gun sitting in the open”.
Anon visits his dealer
Submitted 9 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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CluckN@lemmy.world 9 months ago
stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Eh, it could be both. In a drug deal I’d take it as a sort of “you don’t wanna mess with me”
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Having a gun to protect your weed is so ridiculously dumb. It’s not worth that much, and you go from very little time to potentially mega time.
BobGnarley@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Sure, a couple pounds or something.
5+ or 10+ and that’s their life on the line to protect. If they lose that, its over. Back to zero.
For someone like that that would be their entire life savings/work gone in seconds. You lose that product and can’t serve you lose your clientele. Forever.
Can’t buy groceries with no money. Your kids go hungry or miss school because you cant pay your car note and you get the cops at your door. Then you got some real problems.
This is assuming of course that whoever robs you doesn’t also have a gun and uses it immediately and kill your ass.
Depending on the situation, could be a lot more loss than you’re thinking.
Fox@pawb.social 9 months ago
I think you’re onto something. There was an Active Self Protection video (channel recaps real life self-defense scenarios) today of a home invasion where the attackers definitely knew the place, and there were drugs in the open.
Don’t invite untrustworthy people into your home, period.
nifty@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Anon wasn’t buying weed, but didn’t want to say what he was really buying bc 4chan has feds on it
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
This seems like the most likely answer…
Revonult@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Might be more than just a weed dealer, but yeah.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My former dealer introduced me to dabs during one visit. It was so fucking strong that I (despite being a wake-and-baker for nearly three decades) asked to use his bathroom, where I sat on the toilet with my head in my hands trying to figure out who to give all my weed to since I was going to have to quit smoking altogether. I came to my senses a few minutes later and my dealer laughed his ass off when I told him about it. I used to think I was a potential medalist in the Pot Smoking Olympics, but that shit sorted me out right quick.
PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
TIL I should try dabs
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If your thought is “pot doesn’t get me as high as it did when I first started smoking”, you should definitely try dabs.
Taokan@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
In many states, if you have a gun anywhere in possession while committing a drug crime, even selling weed, it adds years of mandatory sentence onto the charges, often way more than the drug crime itself. I would be extremely weary of anyone mentioning anything about a gun and drugs together in a communication the cops can pin on you … because while they may be the nicest dealer you ever met, they are not the smartest.
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wait till you buy heroin or coke
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 9 months ago
My heroin guy was driving a tank, my crystal meth guy was just sitting on a nuke Dr Strangelove-style
Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Wanted to upvote this but its at 420 right now, so…
SsxChaos@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
It has 690 now, you can upvote it
Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
lol the downvotes
Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I don’t understand, why was it a thread
Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The dealer is telling him not to try anything stupid because he’s armed.
Beacon@fedia.io 9 months ago
Seriously. Just because he didn't know the type of gun doesn't mean it was a threat. It sounds like he was just saying "just fyi there's a gun out", because lots of people will freak the fuck out if they see a gun.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You’re dead. The gun wouldn’t be out.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Don’t buy from dealers that are casual about guns? If someone is braking that many laws at a time, they’re a hazard. They’re brandishing over text. That’s up there with carrying too much, not following traffic laws, being loud, drinking, and driving.
ZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You seem really scared of drug dealers. Some of them might be involved with potentially very violent gangs, especially in certain areas, but that doesn’t mean you’re gonna get shanked as soon as you find out they have drugs or something like that.
Remember that a drug dealer’s main goal when interacting with potential customers is to sell them drugs and make some money. If you don’t pose a threat to them, it would be highly irrational for them to hurt you.
Also, it would only ever be even a little bit reasonable for a drug dealer to try mugging a customer if it meant they’d make more money than they lose; nobody will do business again with someone that mugged them.
This stuff would depend on your area, and there are some crazy people out there, but crazy people involved in loads of crimes generally don’t last long themselves before the police or someone else they upset get to them.
Killing people is also a very difficult thing. Most people don’t seem capable of murder, even if they like to make threats. I think there’s also a lot of work and planning involved if you want to ever get away with murder.
Bare in mind too that guns are quite normalised in the US compared to most other countries. Particularly in certain regions, having a gun in your house is normal and can be perfectly legal.
Obviously I would never intentionally do anything I knew was against the law, but just think about what people’s goals are and what they’d be likely to do. Most people are quite logical, and those that aren’t often end up in mental hospitals.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Never played the game. But, one gets quite an education in prison.
Nailed it. But, this audience doesn’t want the truth of things. They want to feel comfortable in their lukewarm understanding.
I suggest that you pick an individual worthy of your investment in real life. Or, if that’s not a thing, PM me and we’ll talk meta.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The vast majority of dealers are just regular people who happen to sell weed as a side job. Being willing to sell a plant that’s legal for the majority of people in the US and should be legal everywhere doesn’t imply being willing to rob you at gunpoint.
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
I know there’s red flags but he includes a free dab with the purchase :(
Maalus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But they’re braking the law, it can stop them.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Remember when we had nothing but time, the other guys in lockup, and a slam? Peppridge Farm remembers.
I’d call this audience “radical neoliberal”. They radically cling to the short term comfort of bandwagon neoliberalism. While their lives are more expensive and more comfortable than someone in effective poverty, both live effectively paycheck to paycheck.
Only if some event beyond the radical neoliberal’s control happens, such as getting fired, might they experience poverty and prison. When we tell them this truth it forces them to perceive how dangerous the unrestrained bull market is as it runs loose in our collective fiscal china store. That doesn’t at all align with the current radical neoliberal current ideology: “Be psycologically comforted by DNC POTUS marketing material. Reject all that does not provide comfort.”
Having come up soft (parents’ money) I personally know how much the experience of prison and poverty is prerequisite to the neoliberal understanding it. But, having done only relatively easy time (1yr+behavior off quick sentence served in state) I still wouldn’t wish it upon anyone:
The only proactive and ethical means for anyone to empathetically understand poverty and prison is if another pours their heart out in the context of an existing relationship.
Good intent and message. But, wrong audience. Adapt: Can’t do everyone at once. Try one at a time.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I would rather just not hang out with stoners and dealers