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shortylickens

No Lifer
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Before you get all hot and bothered by a good Samaritan, I need to remind you guys about that poor bastard in Vegas.
Remember the husband and wife who shot two cops at a Las Vegas diner? Then went into Walmart and started blasting the place.
A Good Guy With a Gun decided to get involved and got himself killed almost immediately, without stopping either one of them.
I'm fine with self-defense but if you seek out an assailant you may be in for a world of hurt.
 

Fenixgoon

Lifer
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Why do we need to hand him a badge? All he needed was a handgun and willingness to act instead of standing around in a school hallway.
We don't. It was a dig at the uvalde PD. This guy acted in a manner that we expect police officers to, when the real police officers didn't
 
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Brovane

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This is not a thing to be celebrated. He was lucky, this outcome is exceedingly rare compared to the frequencies of gun violence in this country.

I am not celebrating but I am glad he was able to take appropriate action against the threat before he killed more people with a AR-15.
 
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iRONic

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Exactly. Only been like 20 cases in total where the good guy with a gun stopped a shooter. Half were store security or off duty cop.
“An armed civilian stopped attacks by shooting the suspect in 24 of the 464 attacks recorded, about 5% of all events.”

 

esquared

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“An armed civilian stopped attacks by shooting the suspect in 24 of the 464 attacks recorded, about 5% of all events.”

See, not enough good guys with guns.
Need moar and moar.

🙄
/s
 
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eelw

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“An armed civilian stopped attacks by shooting the suspect in 24 of the 464 attacks recorded, about 5% of all events.”


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Ban all public events between 7-6!!!
 
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Amol S.

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Happened yesterday.... person at Dallas Love Field Airport started firing in the air, only to later be shot by a security officer, that to who was by chance near the shooter.
Apparently she also was shot when she was going to start shooting at people ( with the first target being the security officer.
Here is a video that was released,
The shooting surveillance starts at around 5 minute mark.
At least the officers in Dallas which is run by Democrats are not cowards, unlike the ones in Uvalde.

 
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Stopsignhank

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See, not enough good guys with guns.
Need moar and moar.

🙄
/s
We need more good people with guns.


Imagine if that car with the 2 year old in the back seat was able to just drive off after the road rage incident. They just had to have 2 bullets shot at them so they know not to do it again.

/S
 

eelw

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We need more good people with guns.


Imagine if that car with the 2 year old in the back seat was able to just drive off after the road rage incident. They just had to have 2 bullets shot at them so they know not to do it again.

/S
The wild Wild West.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
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I guess you are just another Q nut from a different tree and believe there was some big conspiracy against Bernie and not the fact that more people voted for Hillary than Bernie in the primaries.

I just want you to know that that makes you look really, really, fucking stupid, like maga level stupid.


I'm not going to ask you to apologize, because you're a stupid cowardly bitch and you will never admit to doing anything wrong.
Have fun at your next Klan meeting, you sorry pathetic piece of shit.
 

eelw

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ivwshane

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I'm not going to ask you to apologize, because you're a stupid cowardly bitch and you will never admit to doing anything wrong.
Have fun at your next Klan meeting, you sorry pathetic piece of shit.

Apologize for what? That you only addressed a small portion of my post and ignored the fact that more people voted for Hillary than Bernie? Or the fact that you continue to ignore that Bernie was an independent and it would be stupid for the DNC to support someone outside their party?

I stand by my statement.
 

SMOGZINN

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Weird, nothing in that article supports the headline.

I think that the percentage of people that actually read articles are so low that it barely makes sense to actually write articles. Headlines are all they really want.
I'm pretty sure soon most online 'news' sources will just outsource the writing of the article to one of the experimental AI story writing programs. They will just feed it the keywords they want used and it generates a random story. So few people will ever notice that it won't be a problem.
 
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