Still waiting for the good guy with a gun they keep repeating
EDIT: OK everyone, yes he was the good guy with a gun. Thanks to everyone for pointing this out
Apparently, the shooter was a firearms instructor. Aka, good guy with a gun turned bad guy with a gun.
This crap will never end until the tools they use to kill are off the streets.
Apparently, the shooter was a firearms instructor.
Every gun owner thinks they're a responsible gun owner.
Probably a "Look down the barrel to make sure there is no bullet in there" type.
Not my shocked face!!
...Support for Trump, among other politicians. As shown by the video, Card liked tweets from high-profile conservative figures such as Donald Trump Jnr., Tucker Carlson, Dinesh D'Souza. He also engaged with publications from former house speakers Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan, as per the video.
I think that's the same error in judgement that leads the vast majority of motorists to believe their driving skills are above average. Forgot what it's called.
Which is the key problem. Everyone is a "responsible gun owner" and "good guy with a gun"...... until sometimes they suddenly aren't anymore. At which point your protection is what was person able to keep under normal circumstances aka what they had in their possession on the moment they had a mental snap.
Was it a semi-auto shoot as fast as your finger pulls rifle with potentially hundreds of rounds in quick swap magazines or do they have a manual action hunting rifle or shotgun with fixed magazine, that need to be manually reloaded.
Do they have a pistol with again potentially hundreds of rounds of quick reload ammunition or don't or maybe a target pistol with fixed magazine.
That is why places around the world have magazine and type restrictions, since they exactly know "checking backgrounds isn't fool proof and now amount of background checking helps again sudden newly emerging situation after the checks have been done".
Sure that 5 round moose hunting rifle will absolutely wreck say those 5 people, but one can't exactly run amock shooting around endlessly with moose rifle. Damage limitation. 5 dead people is better situation, than 22 dead people. As cold calculating as that is.
Everyone is a “responsible gun owner” and “good guy with a gun”… until sometimes they suddenly aren’t anymore.
Yeah, and unpopular opinion likely but I think of this similarly to dogs turning on their owners.
And similarly I'd rather have a Yorkshire terrier go crazy on me than a Pitbull.
cough cough Uvalde cough
didn't come because his mother aborted him /s
Yesterday the right said this WAS a good guy. Just let that sink in.
This guy is exactly the kind of person that the GOP considers a "good guy with a gun". He is a mentally ill veteran firearms instructor. Sounds like a boilerplate Trump supporter. Exactly who they want to have more guns.
It's even worse, GOP would want this guy to be an elementary school teacher as a "solution" to the school shootings. Broken, selfish, heartless cowards
Army vet and gun instructor... This was the good guy
There was a study published from data from the last like.. 10 years, I believe, that show that people with guns are more likely to run away, and people WITHOUT guns, are more likely to jump in and try to stop the shooter.
So ya. These good guys with guns are just pussies that never actually use them for good.
Well yeah if they weren't such gigantic cowards they wouldn't buy guns.
Ya. I live in Canada, and I've never felt the need to own a gun. We have a TON of hunting guns here, but I think the fact we don't allow open carry, changes the thought process of gun owners here, and we don't see them as weapons to point at other people. They are more so seen as a tool for a hobby, like a fishing rod is used for fishing.
And honestly, if you avoid Toronto, violence in general is really low. Toronto is just.. special.
And honestly, if you avoid Toronto, violence in general is really low. Toronto is just… special.
Toronto isn't even in the top ten most dangerous...
That might be because people who own guns have had training in how not to get killed.
I'm not sure that saying gun owners should be quicker to shoot people is the right direction.
The real question is, of those ≈35 cases where an armed civilian stopped a shooter, how many did the cops then shoot the "good guy with a gun?" I know it's happened, and I think at least twice.
Mass shootings themselves are a rounding number, rounding numbers are what we're discussing. Also helps that they almost always choose gun free zones "for no reason" instead of "gun guaranteed zones." Almost like they don't want armed people shooting at them.
And one or two, but just because the cops make an error, doesn't mean the person was wrong to save all those people. That's also why you're told to put the gun away once you've secured the situation, and you're supposed to give a visual description of the shooter when you call it in. You really think it's better to just let people cause whatever harm they want to than for them to stop the violent attacker? Even if it's just a guy with a knife who can "only kill less people than a guy with a gun," "if it even stops just one" right?
Maybe be the change you want to see in the world instead of bitching, then.
edit: go ahead and keep downvoting me, when the right does finally manage a coup they'll be the only ones with any guns you stupid motherfuckers. For now, the 2nd amendment is your right -- you want to forgo it until they take it away from you (and only you), be my guest.
You alright buddy?
If you check the other thread here, he's clearly not.
He's clearly a troll. Don't feed the trolls, people.
His new flare also says he's banned from the community, so ... mission accomplished?
His profile did say the mods hate him haha. Good riddance.
I'm pro-gun but anti-2A precisely because of fuckers like you who insist we can't do anything about this stuff because 2A so we just have to live with mass shootings.
Nope if 2A is standing in the way of sensible regulation, then get rid of it. Then I'll fight for reasonable laws around gun ownership. 2A is the problem.
Bingo, license (no test just who you are where you live like a DL) register (every firearm) and own a fucking tank of you want, I don't care. The biggest issue is you can pretty easily get ahold of one without anyone knowing you have one so the thought someone could get away is much more pervasive.
Not from the US but isn't it like that US Citizens do not have to register their current place of living? If true I think they could get a grip of the gun madness by fixing that problem.
They could couple permission for buying guns and ammo to have the buyer have a registered residency and showing their ID which would be checked against a federal database which logs the amount of guns and ammo bought.
If a buyer is reaching some tresholds they'd have to ask for a permit and give some convincing reasons why they need them. Especially when they want to buy AR's or other heavy weaponry.
When set in effect, every US citizen has to register their current weapons. After a grace period, owning unregistered weapons and getting caught will get the buyer a ban for owning weapons and having to re-apply for permissions after some time. Getting caught multilple times is a perma ban.
Every US citizen should have the right to buy guns and ammo to protect themselves even if they don't have a permanent residency. Those could be allowed to buy a handgun, also logged in the federal DB with their ID or SSN.
Everyone who wants a permit to buy guns needs to complete a training from a state agency.
That long-ass plan for a better world would see the first major roadblock with the refusal to register their residency by at least 50% of the US-population, right? And it could also be that many left leaning, dems or libertarians would give that idea a hard pass.
So yeah...probably every part of this plan collides with the US idea of individual freedom. Take a look at Switzerland maybe.
Basically yes.
That's the idea. Not on ammo though, reloading is better for the environment so let's not impede that.
No. That's a search, you can't do that in the United States.
That's the idea.
That's the idea.
Nope. You have to offer incentives to businesses so they want to make people do it or they won't sell it, then it's a business meeting a business decision not the government imposing it's will. I mean it still is but most people over here are not huge on critical thinking.
Probably, so you incentiveize it. Again then it's people sneaking a couple dollars from the government, not the government imposing it's will.
Not really, people are just dumb and there's a lot of money involved in keeping it controversial. You can literally watch profits of the big ammo manufacturers rise and fall every 4 -8 years they're not going to let that go easily.
Sensible regulations would be rubber bullets for newly minted firearms owners. Keep it empty, but if the day comes that you think about going on a mass shooting spree, you'll probably change your mind when you remember that you'll be loading rubber bullets and have to explain yourself after you've shot someone.
when the right does finally manage a coup they’ll be the only ones with any guns you stupid motherfuckers
Still waiting for the good guy with a gun they keep repeating
EDIT: OK everyone, yes he was the good guy with a gun. Thanks to everyone for pointing this out
Apparently, the shooter was a firearms instructor. Aka, good guy with a gun turned bad guy with a gun.
This crap will never end until the tools they use to kill are off the streets.
Every gun owner thinks they're a responsible gun owner.
Probably a "Look down the barrel to make sure there is no bullet in there" type.
Not my shocked face!!
...Support for Trump, among other politicians. As shown by the video, Card liked tweets from high-profile conservative figures such as Donald Trump Jnr., Tucker Carlson, Dinesh D'Souza. He also engaged with publications from former house speakers Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan, as per the video.
I think that's the same error in judgement that leads the vast majority of motorists to believe their driving skills are above average. Forgot what it's called.
Which is the key problem. Everyone is a "responsible gun owner" and "good guy with a gun"...... until sometimes they suddenly aren't anymore. At which point your protection is what was person able to keep under normal circumstances aka what they had in their possession on the moment they had a mental snap.
Was it a semi-auto shoot as fast as your finger pulls rifle with potentially hundreds of rounds in quick swap magazines or do they have a manual action hunting rifle or shotgun with fixed magazine, that need to be manually reloaded.
Do they have a pistol with again potentially hundreds of rounds of quick reload ammunition or don't or maybe a target pistol with fixed magazine.
That is why places around the world have magazine and type restrictions, since they exactly know "checking backgrounds isn't fool proof and now amount of background checking helps again sudden newly emerging situation after the checks have been done".
Sure that 5 round moose hunting rifle will absolutely wreck say those 5 people, but one can't exactly run amock shooting around endlessly with moose rifle. Damage limitation. 5 dead people is better situation, than 22 dead people. As cold calculating as that is.
Yeah, and unpopular opinion likely but I think of this similarly to dogs turning on their owners.
And similarly I'd rather have a Yorkshire terrier go crazy on me than a Pitbull.
cough cough Uvalde cough
didn't come because his mother aborted him /s
Yesterday the right said this WAS a good guy. Just let that sink in.
This guy is exactly the kind of person that the GOP considers a "good guy with a gun". He is a mentally ill veteran firearms instructor. Sounds like a boilerplate Trump supporter. Exactly who they want to have more guns.
It's even worse, GOP would want this guy to be an elementary school teacher as a "solution" to the school shootings. Broken, selfish, heartless cowards
Army vet and gun instructor... This was the good guy
There was a study published from data from the last like.. 10 years, I believe, that show that people with guns are more likely to run away, and people WITHOUT guns, are more likely to jump in and try to stop the shooter.
So ya. These good guys with guns are just pussies that never actually use them for good.
Well yeah if they weren't such gigantic cowards they wouldn't buy guns.
Ya. I live in Canada, and I've never felt the need to own a gun. We have a TON of hunting guns here, but I think the fact we don't allow open carry, changes the thought process of gun owners here, and we don't see them as weapons to point at other people. They are more so seen as a tool for a hobby, like a fishing rod is used for fishing.
And honestly, if you avoid Toronto, violence in general is really low. Toronto is just.. special.
Toronto isn't even in the top ten most dangerous...
That might be because people who own guns have had training in how not to get killed.
I'm not sure that saying gun owners should be quicker to shoot people is the right direction.
https://crimeresearch.org/2023/08/cases-where-armed-citizens-have-stopped-active-shooter-incidents/
The real question is, of those ≈35 cases where an armed civilian stopped a shooter, how many did the cops then shoot the "good guy with a gun?" I know it's happened, and I think at least twice.
Also 35/thousands is a rounding error.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
Mass shootings themselves are a rounding number, rounding numbers are what we're discussing. Also helps that they almost always choose gun free zones "for no reason" instead of "gun guaranteed zones." Almost like they don't want armed people shooting at them.
And one or two, but just because the cops make an error, doesn't mean the person was wrong to save all those people. That's also why you're told to put the gun away once you've secured the situation, and you're supposed to give a visual description of the shooter when you call it in. You really think it's better to just let people cause whatever harm they want to than for them to stop the violent attacker? Even if it's just a guy with a knife who can "only kill less people than a guy with a gun," "if it even stops just one" right?
Maybe be the change you want to see in the world instead of bitching, then.
edit: go ahead and keep downvoting me, when the right does finally manage a coup they'll be the only ones with any guns you stupid motherfuckers. For now, the 2nd amendment is your right -- you want to forgo it until they take it away from you (and only you), be my guest.
You alright buddy?
If you check the other thread here, he's clearly not.
He's clearly a troll. Don't feed the trolls, people.
His new flare also says he's banned from the community, so ... mission accomplished?
His profile did say the mods hate him haha. Good riddance.
I'm pro-gun but anti-2A precisely because of fuckers like you who insist we can't do anything about this stuff because 2A so we just have to live with mass shootings.
Nope if 2A is standing in the way of sensible regulation, then get rid of it. Then I'll fight for reasonable laws around gun ownership. 2A is the problem.
Bingo, license (no test just who you are where you live like a DL) register (every firearm) and own a fucking tank of you want, I don't care. The biggest issue is you can pretty easily get ahold of one without anyone knowing you have one so the thought someone could get away is much more pervasive.
Not from the US but isn't it like that US Citizens do not have to register their current place of living? If true I think they could get a grip of the gun madness by fixing that problem.
They could couple permission for buying guns and ammo to have the buyer have a registered residency and showing their ID which would be checked against a federal database which logs the amount of guns and ammo bought.
If a buyer is reaching some tresholds they'd have to ask for a permit and give some convincing reasons why they need them. Especially when they want to buy AR's or other heavy weaponry.
When set in effect, every US citizen has to register their current weapons. After a grace period, owning unregistered weapons and getting caught will get the buyer a ban for owning weapons and having to re-apply for permissions after some time. Getting caught multilple times is a perma ban.
Every US citizen should have the right to buy guns and ammo to protect themselves even if they don't have a permanent residency. Those could be allowed to buy a handgun, also logged in the federal DB with their ID or SSN.
Everyone who wants a permit to buy guns needs to complete a training from a state agency.
That long-ass plan for a better world would see the first major roadblock with the refusal to register their residency by at least 50% of the US-population, right? And it could also be that many left leaning, dems or libertarians would give that idea a hard pass.
So yeah...probably every part of this plan collides with the US idea of individual freedom. Take a look at Switzerland maybe.
Basically yes.
That's the idea. Not on ammo though, reloading is better for the environment so let's not impede that.
No. That's a search, you can't do that in the United States.
That's the idea.
That's the idea.
Nope. You have to offer incentives to businesses so they want to make people do it or they won't sell it, then it's a business meeting a business decision not the government imposing it's will. I mean it still is but most people over here are not huge on critical thinking.
Probably, so you incentiveize it. Again then it's people sneaking a couple dollars from the government, not the government imposing it's will.
Not really, people are just dumb and there's a lot of money involved in keeping it controversial. You can literally watch profits of the big ammo manufacturers rise and fall every 4 -8 years they're not going to let that go easily.
Sensible regulations would be rubber bullets for newly minted firearms owners. Keep it empty, but if the day comes that you think about going on a mass shooting spree, you'll probably change your mind when you remember that you'll be loading rubber bullets and have to explain yourself after you've shot someone.
Believe it or not, the US military has many guns.
Who the heck is paying you to preach this crap? They need a better representative.
So... go buy a gun and shoot him myself? No thanks, voting is my weapon of choice and I use it like a machine gun
So you commit fraud by voting many times really fast?
Not funny