• Queen HawlSera
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    401 year ago

    Haven’t we had many records of “good guys with a gun”

    Who pull out their weapon and then either get shot by police who mistake them for the shooter or put it back because they can’t tell what’s going on in the chaos?

        • @SupraMario
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          51 year ago

          There is an entire subreddit /r/dgu

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Eh just let em keep moving the bar, makes em look silly.

            “That never happens, show me ONE example”

            “Here’s like 50”

            “That isn’t enough, it still isn’t 100% of the time so somehow I’m right, and I’m going to ignore how the shooters target gun free zones to lessen the chance of said armed resistance so gun control actually lowers the rates of ‘good guys with guns,’ and don’t you DARE bring up the fact that Harvard estimated ‘a more realistic’ estimate than Kleck and Lott at 100,000 dgu/yr, which is still a raw 40,000 over our gun deaths and 88,000 over our intentional homicides /yr respectively, and that’s the low estimate. Gun defense bad, knife crime good, i know it doesn’t mean much when you’re getting vivisected but at least he gave us time to run away and leave you for dead!”

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      41 year ago

      The percentage is incredibly small.

      Out of nearly 560 mass shootings this year, we are looking at something ridiculous like less than 1% was a “good guy with a gun” that helped. And for some of those “good guy with a gun”, they also end up dead from police shooting at them.

      In other words, you’re more likely to hope the shooter is struck by lightning.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        21 year ago

        This is why I never took the Republican Party seriously, even before the days when they came out as being domestic terrorists.

        Anyone who is honestly more afraid of not having a gun than they are of not having a doctor, has the mindset of a 7-year-old who’s Daddy just let him watch Die Hard.

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        01 year ago

        Most of those “mass shootings” are gang violence, and when a shooter gets taken out by another shooter it’s just part of the violence.

        The mass shootings where the point is a massacre have a slightly better rate of “good guys with guns,” but still admittedly not great.

        It’s completely irrelevant though, the point of the right to bear arms is so people can join a radical militia and help put down slave revolts, conquer land from the Indians, and fight tyranny, in the order of importance to the Founding Fathers.

    • @Zoboomafoo
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      21 year ago

      I doubt more than a tiny percentage of people who carry do so specifically to stop mass shootings

    • @SupraMario
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      1 year ago

      You don’t CCW to be some stupid fudd sheep dog. You carry so you have a force equalizer and so you can protect yourself and others around you…not to go hunting for someone shooting others.

      • @Nurse_Robot
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        21 year ago

        No, you carry because you’re fearful and ignorant

        • @SupraMario
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          11 year ago

          The ivory tower you sit in is some mighty fine white privilege.