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In reply to the discussion: No, I'm not going to register my guns. [View all]Igel
(35,274 posts)They've long dropped the actual protective service, but kept the stickers. A lot of other people in the community have the same stickers and, I'm guessing, do pay for their security systems.
Now, imagine the effect of publicly announcing who actually has active alarm systems. Easy enough to take the list into the community and tick off those addresses with non-valid protection stickers.
Sticker = words.
Gun = object that can kill.
Security system = quick response and loud reaction to intruders (potentially, at least)
Best to keep words in their own category--they reflect electrochemical signals in the brain of the speaker (and hearer) and are compression waves in the air. That's pretty much it. Ineffectual little bits of energy all by themselves.