Good Guy With A Gun Stops Indianapolis Mall Shooter

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[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Yeah I'm seeing the "There's barely any mass shootings stopped by guns" meme types making the rounds and I'm just thinking, this is retarded.

Sure we can make an argument that less guns floating around could potentially lead to less rampage killings in total, but your argument is that good guys with guns don't stop bad guys with guns? I guess when you consider the cops to be the bad guys. Literally every mass shooting ends when someone else with a gun either shoots or otherwise gets the guy to surrender.

[–]IMissPorn 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Not strictly true. Very rarely, attackers with guns are subdued by unarmed people. And hats off to heroes who manage to pull that off. But it's sure a lot easier if you have a gun too.

[–]AXXA 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

knives are more dangerous than guns

murderers will find a way to murder

guns save lives and keep us safe

[–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

If everyone carried guns mistakes would be made and people would shoot the guy who was trying to stop the shooter.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Depends. You'd need a confusing circumstance and some heavy odds. Usually it's obvious who's the baddie. Usually folks can't shoot straight anyway. Add those up and you've got slim chances. I'd rather take my chance with fair and equal freedom than only let the illegal criminals with guns and the mafia government criminals with guns have weapons leaving the rest of us vulnerable to their predatory bullshit.

[–]AXXA 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

that's not what actually happened

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree, the problems aren't so easily solved as by arming everyone. If they were it would have been done already.