News articles are full of people dumbfounded about what to do and also thanking God for protecting them.
How fucking diluted are people. Enact common sense gun laws. Don't worship the God who allowed 4 people to get murdered while grocery shopping.
*deluded. We're not watering people down for fucks sake.
Oops. You're absolutely right.
Well its Arkensas its pretty watered down educationally. I should know I got kin in little rock and my ancestors came from there.
Deluded, but yes.
Hey the place where my grand parents were born. New Edinburg, AR. A wide spot in the road between Warren, AR and Fordyce AR. It mainly acts as a place to slow down due to the reduced speed limit for no real reason. Fun fact about that road. I haven't been that way in over a decade but there was a sign/monument on the road marking the birth place of Bear Bryant. Also not far from Kingsland, AR the birth place of Johnny Cash. Both of those people did the smart thing. The smart thing was to leave Cleveland county.
I read an interview in the Democrat-Gazette with the daughter of Ms. Taylor, one of the victims. There are no words to describe how awful it must be to have one of your friends or family members just minding their own business only to be shot to death while checking out at the grocery store.
Ms. Taylor's daughter expressed frustrations that she wasn't there because she thought she could have done something, implying that she would have shot the assailant. In her defense, the woman's grieving and people who are in that state tend to think and say all kinds of stuff.
But here's the thing, the "good guy with a gun" mantra is idealistic at best. Even if you are a "good guy" with a gun, odds are that by the time you can even respond, the "bad guy" has already killed someone. Not to mention that in that very panic filled moment, there's a much higher chance that you might accidentally shoot another bystander.
"Good guy with a gun" is not a solution to "bad guy with a gun" because no amount of bullets fired by "good guys" will bring back the people who are already dead.
Good guy with a gun only works in Hollywood. In real life, the cops are going to shoot the good guy with a gun because he's at an active shooting scene and he's holding a gun. The math, like most cops, is really pretty simple.
I say it again like I do every fucking time. We do not have a right to fire home.
Because the cops kill people every fucking time they see a gun especially if your a minority.
Only people not getting shot are fucking right wing nazis. Cops seem to never shoot them.
Oh no.... Anyways.
Thoughts and Prayers.
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