Every time a mass shooting or potential mass shooting is stopped by what Republicans and the National Rifle Association like to describe as a “good guy with a gun,” gun humpers latch onto the theory that it is the only way to stop a “bad guy with a gun.” But is it though?
In 2017 in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a good guy with a gun stopped a mass shooter. But did he really? The good guy with a gun waited outside the church where the bad guy with the gun had just finished killing 27 people and injuring 22 others. The good guy didn’t go in during the shooting, which now seems to be common practice in Texas for good guys with guns.
Waiting outside, the good guy opened fire on the bad guy after he came out of the church. He shot the bad guy, who then took off in his vehicle. The good guy and a second good guy pursued the bad guy who eventually crashed his car and died.
But did the good guy save any lives? After the bad guy left the scene, the good guy chased him instead of going inside the church to check on the wounded. Perhaps he really could have saved a life if he had stopped a victim’s bleeding. Who knows? But it’s hard to argue the good guy with a gun saved any lives or that this incident proves the theory works. Despite there being a good guy with a gun, 27 people died.
Sunday at a mall in Indiana, a shooter killed three people and injured three others before a 22-year-old good guy with a gun took him out. The good guy was legally licensed to carry a concealed weapon. The killer got off 20 shots before the good guy took him down. This good guy probably saved lives. But is this the system we want for gun safety, more people with guns? Republicans and the NRA say yes.
Gun nuts have already made it clear that dozens of dead children are a price they’re willing to pay for their right to own assault rifles. And with this latest incident, they’re surely going to celebrate that only three people died. But wouldn’t it be better if no one died? Can we live with mass shootings if only three people die at each? If so, we have some very low standards and appreciation for life.
We wouldn’t need protection from bad guys with guns from good guys with guns if perhaps no bad guys had guns.
CNN’s Alysin Camerota asked, “are we all supposed to rely on an armed 22-year-old in the food court?”
Kris Brown, president of the gun control group Brady: United Against Gun Violence, dispelled the NRA’s myth of the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun by saying, “If more guns made us safer, America would be the safest country in the WORLD. We need sensible gun laws, not vigilante safety nets.”
Our only option against a mass shooter shouldn’t be hoping there’s a vigilante hanging about nearby. Wouldn’t a better option be ending mass shootings? It can be done. It has been done, just not here.
When NRA fucks say banning guns won’t end gun violence, they don’t really know because we haven’t tried. Let’s give it a try. We’re Americans. We’re supposed to be good at magnificent achievements because we’re the greatest country in the world. Right? So, if we’re so awesome, then banning assault rifles and ending mass shootings should be a piece of cake. Hey, we’re Americans. We’re fat. We like cake. Let’s do it.
The only thing to stop bad guys with guns is for good people to end the carefree and irresponsible distribution of assault rifles.
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This country has an epidemic of lone wolf mass shooters. They are the well-armed, clearly profiled, suicidal malcontents that have a gun industry that panders to their sick, diabolical, deadly escapades. They are supported by “bought-and-paid-for” gun industry bribed politicians that “feed the fire” of discontent and hate (like self-proclaimed RINO hunter ERIC GREITENS, unhinged nitwit little ronnie jackson, cave woman Marjorie Taylor Green, brainless Lauren Boebert and DONALD TRUMP). Foreign adversaries of the United States (Putin, Russia, China, North Korea…) take great pleasure fomenting division in the United States and funding these politicians through the NRA, and the beyond stupid trump supporter base: the willfully ignorant Q-anon fascist GOP moron deplorables that play right into the game plan for division and anarchy to weaken our nation.
When the house is divided it takes extreme measures to abolish Trump’s carnage to return order and unity.
Republican President Abraham Lincoln temporarily suspended the writ of habeas corpus to get the upper hand.
Temporarily revoking the rights of those that abuse their rights might be in order.
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GOOD GUY WITH A GUN!! … “The only thing to stop bad guys with guns is for good people to end the carefree and irresponsible distribution of assault rifles.”
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Pro-Lifers are only pro-life till the fetus becomes a child. Then suddenly they become Pro-I-Don’t-Give-a-Fuck fuckheads who carry guns in order to shoot mass shooters, after the mass shooter is out of bullets! Pro-Life does not even mean Pro-the-Living, because the Living could die giving birth to a fetus. They have no understanding of what they really believe, because their only goal is TO OWN THE LIBTARDS. They cannot see they are the RepTiles. (My apologies to all non-human reptiles!)
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Do you support magazine capacity limits, and if so, what is their intended purpose?
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I love how they keep saying things that work in other countries won’t work here.
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