Run, you fucking piece of shit. Go go go gogogogogogog!
My niece told her grandmother about her fear of getting murdered at school. Feel that fear, asshole.
Run, you fucking piece of shit. Go go go gogogogogogog!
My niece told her grandmother about her fear of getting murdered at school. Feel that fear, asshole.
I was raised around guns. Had some (superficial) training in the military with guns. I’m not a gun owner now, but while I think R and the right in general are absolutely culpable regarding our gun violence problems due to their refusal to acknowledge them or do a damn thing about them, I’m not anti-2A, and not being disingenuous with my comment here.
I was told by everyone who was ever responsible for training me in gun safety that you don’t pull it out unless you are prepared to use it, and you should not be prepared to use it unless you are prepared to kill with it. I was also taught that brandishing was illegal, and more likely to escalate than defuse a situation.
You can be prepared to use it and not have to use it when the criminal decides to disengage.
I’m not going to redo this entire discussion. You can see the other replies in this same comment chain that trod the same ground.
The brandishing part is why it’s not reported or on the news. But that does not mean it doesn’t happen successfully.
So one of the best uses of a weapon defensively is to break fundamental gun safety rules that are in literally every gun safety course (and the law)? Aren’t R the party of law and order?
you realize ‘brandishing’ doesn’t mean pointing at, right? you get that don’t you?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?height=800&def_id=18-USC-25375849-946262285&term_occur=999&term_src=title:18:part:I:chapter:44:section:924
So, it’s illegal to brandish a firearm. Pointing it at them is included in that definition, it seems to me, but not required to have broken the law. If I’m missing your point please clarify.
brandishing isn’t a breaking a “fundamental gun safety rule”. yes it can include pointing at someone, but simply SHOWING someone your holstered gun is considered brandishing. simply drawing your weapon can be considered brandishing. but it can also thwart people meaning to do harm. you insinuated that brandishing was only pointing a gun at someone, thus breaking one of the 4 fundamental safety rules.
And in all those cases it would be illegal. The statement being made is that a good way to use your gun defensively is to break the law.
In the original comment that I replied to it was unclear. (I’ve quoted that bit below.) I assumed he meant pointing it, and stayed with that assumption throughout the rest of the discussion. I see now I glossed over his clarification. So fair point I suppose, but I don’t think it changes the overall argument that there’s almost never a “good guy with a gun” around, which is at the top of the comment chain that the quoted comment below was replying to, and is the context for all this ensuing discussion.
Independent of any argument about gun control, I absolutely agree with the comment at the top of the chain that it seems self-evident that private gun ownership in most parts of the country is doing more harm than good, and it seems exceptionally uncommon for a “good guy with a gun” to be the person who ends one of these shootings.
It’s also not particularly hard to find stories where the cops show up and shoot the “good guy with a gun” afterward when there IS one, so personally, I’d rather take my chances unarmed since I’ve concluded that: It’s statistically unlikely I’ll be in a shooting, even more unlikely that I’ll be able to do something about it if I am, and there’s a nonzero chance that if I do, the cops (edit: or some other “good guy with a gun”) will shoot me anyhow, thinking I’m the bad guy.
You and others can of course make a different decision, but let’s not pretend that “Good guy with a gun” stories are anywhere near as common as “bad guy with a gun” stories.