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In reply to the discussion: 911 Puts Woman On Hold While She Watches Her Husband Being Shot [View all]1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)43. Okay ...
But that's not what he said happened.
The new poster boy for this agenda is Joe Zamudio, a hero in the Tucson incident. Zamudio was in a nearby drug store when the shooting began, and he was armed. He ran to the scene and helped subdue the killer.
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Zamudio demonstrated how his shooting hand was wrapped around the weapon, poised to draw and fire. As he rounded the corner, he saw a man holding a gun. "And that's who I at first thought was the shooter," Zamudio recalled. "I told him to 'Drop it, drop it!' "
But the man with the gun wasn't the shooter. He had wrested the gun away from the shooter. "Had you shot that guy, it would have been a big, fat mess," the interviewer pointed out.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2011/01/friendly_firearms.html
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Zamudio demonstrated how his shooting hand was wrapped around the weapon, poised to draw and fire. As he rounded the corner, he saw a man holding a gun. "And that's who I at first thought was the shooter," Zamudio recalled. "I told him to 'Drop it, drop it!' "
But the man with the gun wasn't the shooter. He had wrested the gun away from the shooter. "Had you shot that guy, it would have been a big, fat mess," the interviewer pointed out.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2011/01/friendly_firearms.html
While it is true that he was not present while the shooting was happening, his recounting of the event demonstrates the fallacy, and potential for more tragedy, of the "if someone/everyone had a gun" narrative.
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GreenStormCloud
Aug 2012
OP
So it was the victim that did something that got himself shot? Not the fault of the
kelly1mm
Aug 2012
#61
Your categorical statement was demonstrably false and convenient to your argument. n/t
TPaine7
Aug 2012
#36
Sounds like something to go on a tombstone--"The Brady/VPC Special Engraving", 35% off. n/t
TPaine7
Aug 2012
#20
Jeez. Maybe she should have gone to WalMart and bought one of those $100 guns
shadowrider
Aug 2012
#6
A thousand gun carrying people is an equally target rich environment, true that
shadowrider
Aug 2012
#38
If he had been at the scene he would have had no difficulty knowing who was the bad guy.
GreenStormCloud
Aug 2012
#45
That law is toothless, it is basically ceremonial since it doesn't apply to anyone who objects
TPaine7
Aug 2012
#24
I can't think of anyone arguing that people should be required to own a gun
4th law of robotics
Aug 2012
#14
And we are told that gun toters can save the day. How about gun toter who shot clerk in head
Hoyt
Aug 2012
#8
If the point is not in your favor, avoid the point. It's an elementary anti tactic. n/t
TPaine7
Aug 2012
#19
The wild, wild west was much tamer than CCW holdout and former gun free paradise of Chicago n/t
TPaine7
Aug 2012
#29
Denizens of the wild west would be horrified at the violence in our modern civilized cities
4th law of robotics
Aug 2012
#78