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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.
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.
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:
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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.
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,
- Dark theater
- Smoke filled (by shooter)
- Bullets suddenly flying
Who in their right mind thinks basically everyone wouldn't have been mowed down in a hail of gun fire?
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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🎶 This is America 🎶
Don't catch you slipping now
"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
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.
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.
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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He needs to be moved to a prison.
Terrified? What does he think the 6 year old is going to do to him?
Move in?
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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?
Take his fucking guns away!
Can't. 2nd amendment. You have to give him more guns. Also give a gun to the 6yo.
Good kids with guns stop bad guys with guns.
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Were there a bunch of snickers and Reese's in that bag or was he just insane
Airheads and Sourpatch kids
So he chose the trick.
Jesus fuck.
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