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[-] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 130 points 1 year ago

This is why the “good guy with the gun” BS needs to die. The real world isn’t a movie: there are no designated heroes and villains. Everyone’s a good guy in their own mind until they point a gun at a 6 year old.

[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

I've always wondered how people thought the "good guy with a gun" would work in a chaotic real world situation. Suppose you're armed and there's a mass shooting event. You pull out your gun and keep a look out for the shooter as you hear gunfire getting closer. Then you spot a guy holding a gun. You quickly take aim and fire...

... And hit another "good guy with a gun" who was trying to take out the mass shooter the same as you.

Oh, but then you get shot by a third "good guy with a gun" who thought YOU were the mass shooter.

Arming everyone and telling them to be "good guys with guns" just seems, at best, like it would lead to MORE injuries and deaths.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Or, as has actually happened before, a good guy with a gun kills the bad guy and then gets shot by the cops who arrive thinking the guy with the gun is the bad guy:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/560798-police-chief-hails-good-guy-with-a-gun-after-officer-kills/

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[-] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

It’s deflective rhetoric so they don’t have to address the truth:

We don’t know who is going to make a bad decision with their gun until after they do it.

[-] Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, my coworkers said how great it would have been after the Colorado movie theater shooting (Batman movie) if everyone was armed. They just knew the original shooter would have been killed right away.

So,

  1. Dark theater
  2. Smoke filled (by shooter)
  3. Bullets suddenly flying

Who in their right mind thinks basically everyone wouldn't have been mowed down in a hail of gun fire?

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's either that, or the people with guns are afraid to use them when the time comes and they hesitate too long to do any good.

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[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Don't catch you slipping now

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

"Praaaaaise the loooord and pass the ammunition!" https://youtu.be/TUOPvtVZwo8

(Those aren't just the lyrics, that's the name of the song.)

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"He also shared that just the night before the incident, two people had knocked on their door severally and ran away before he opened the door."

This is what had him terrified

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 42 points 1 year ago

This guy needs to move to someplace remote if someone knocking on his door scares him enough to point a gun at a 6 year old.

[-] Caradoc879@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Seriously... if you're ready to shoot a couple kids ding-dong-ditching you then you don't need your gun, you need a fucking psych ward.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

This was just something kids did when i was growing up. The thought of someone ever coming out with a gun never even crossed our minds. Now it's like you can't go to Target without worrying.

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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

He needs to be moved to a prison.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Terrified? What does he think the 6 year old is going to do to him?

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[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Remember the guy that shot the woman that was backing out of his driveway? Also remember the guy who shot a door to door salesman? Also remember the guy who shot a kid playing hide and seek?

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago

Take his fucking guns away!

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 41 points 1 year ago

Can't. 2nd amendment. You have to give him more guns. Also give a gun to the 6yo.

[-] Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

If we armed all 6yros this wouldn't happen

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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Good kids with guns stop bad guys with guns.

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[-] Furedadmins@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Were there a bunch of snickers and Reese's in that bag or was he just insane

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 1 year ago

They better have been king sized.

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Airheads and Sourpatch kids

[-] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

So he chose the trick.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Jesus fuck.

[-] orphiebaby@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Finally, some good news on News@lemmy.world!

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