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In reply to the discussion: Off-duty deputy praised for taking down gunman at Mayan 14 theater [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)1. Correction...
Castellano was off duty in a theater with a gun (in a gun free zone). A gun stopped what could have been several dead.
A gun in the hands of a trained professional, a person who deals with dangerous situations every day stopped this cold.
Had the gun been wielded by just some average Joe with no real experience handling a firearm could have made the situation far, far worse.
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Off-duty deputy praised for taking down gunman at Mayan 14 theater [View all]
shadowrider
Dec 2012
OP
She had a gun in a gun free zone. The gun stopped the perp. He got shot, he wasn't talked
shadowrider
Dec 2012
#2
And yet, we do not reserve armed self-defense to the sole provence of the police.
PavePusher
Dec 2012
#28
Only a very few (and generally very well-to-do) people own "military-grade assault rifles".
PavePusher
Dec 2012
#45
How much training does it take to recognize a bad person and shoot them?
Atypical Liberal
Dec 2012
#20
If you can find evidence of a Citizen in a lawful self-defense incident "making things worse".....
PavePusher
Dec 2012
#27
Yet nearly every time one of these shootings happens, it stops because of someone with a gun.
Atypical Liberal
Dec 2012
#31
I do not believe that law enforcemenet officers are some kind of magical unicorn.
Atypical Liberal
Dec 2012
#38