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alarimer

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22. It is a fantasy, nothing more.

Reply to Honeycombe8 (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 12:35 PM

Dec 2012

These people think life is a movie, in which, given half a chance, they will play the hero.

In the Gabby Giffords shooting, there was a guy who had a gun. He couldn't act because he didn't clearly see the shooter and someone else had already subdued him. He said later that if he had shot, he would have shot the guy who took the gun from the shooter, rather than the shooter himself because the situation was murky at best.

Also, who determines who is "good"? That football player who shot his girlfriend, then himself was described as "good" by a lot of people. Were they wrong? Probably he was no better or worse than anyone else, until he went very wrong.

Who's to say what any of us is capable of, given the right pressures and problems?

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CSPAN caller says good people should be allowed to carry [View all] Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 OP

Good people don't need or want guns.... bowens43 Dec 2012 #1

+1 etherealtruth Dec 2012 #2

Good people don't need or want guns Flashmann Dec 2012 #3

I know good people who own guns. cali Dec 2012 #8

Good people don't need or want to deprive others of their Constitutional rights. NT Llewlladdwr Dec 2012 #14

I do need them out on the farm Recursion Dec 2012 #26

Yes, and *I* should be the one tledford Dec 2012 #4

if someone is shooting their gun and you have to get yours out from a purse or holster samsingh Dec 2012 #5

Well, the shooter has a lot of people to keep his eye on. Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #10

and so he's killing people until someone takes him out samsingh Dec 2012 #12

Oh, I don't disagree w/you on that. I was just pointing out that it might be possible Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #13

well then limit the magazine side and take the shooter out at reload time. samsingh Dec 2012 #15

That's how the Gifford shooter was taken down. Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #17

agreed samsingh Dec 2012 #20

Fail. The Luby's massacre was one of the reasons that Texas liberalized its concealed carry laws. slackmaster Dec 2012 #6

"That woman" was Suzanna Gratia Hupp, my former State Representative ..... oldhippie Dec 2012 #19

You're Not Keeping Very Nice Company. (nt) Paladin Dec 2012 #24

A lot of bad people delude themselves into thinking they are good Generic Brad Dec 2012 #7

Right. Shootings are always a surprise. When Gaby Gifford was shot, there was a man present JDPriestly Dec 2012 #9

Yeah, that's what I think. Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #11

Define 'Good'. n/t jackbenimble Dec 2012 #16

LaPierre used that word, too, I believe. I guess they mean good guys don't mass kill? Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #18

Or when 'good' crosses the line over to bad. jackbenimble Dec 2012 #30

Do they have a solid definition of "good"? jwirr Dec 2012 #21

I don't know how you'd know BEFORE the incident who is good and who is bad. nt Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #23

It is a fantasy, nothing more. alarimer Dec 2012 #22

That woman is living in a movie script nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #25

I Say - Repeal The 2nd Amendment Now - Outlaw All Firearms cantbeserious Dec 2012 #27

Or if someone saw her with a gun and thought she was the "bad guy" madmom Dec 2012 #28

Who gets to decide who is "good?" Skidmore Dec 2012 #29