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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)16. Average armed Joes make things worse all the time
They shoot themselves or others, accidentally or on purpose, and their weapons fall into the hands of children with predictable results.
We have had two instances in the last week of small children bringing guns to school, which either a parent GAVE them, or the parent failed to secure the weapon properly, so the child took it.
I have been robbed and looked down the barrel of a gun. At that moment, I didn't wish I had a gun, or that some other person had a gun to shoot him. I wished HE didn't have a gun.
Can we keep all guns out of the hands of criminals? No. But the currents system makes it child's play to obtain a firearm.
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Off-duty deputy praised for taking down gunman at Mayan 14 theater [View all]
shadowrider
Dec 2012
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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