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'Gun-loving' GOP governor reportedly seen 'running scared for his life' from mass shooting
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I would love to be wrong, but it's too bad one of the injured or killed weren't connected to the governor. That seems to be the only time some people give a shit.
They still don't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shooting
The only difference is they were a lot faster to admit it was an act of terrorism. No efforts to limit the access to firearms to prevent it in the future.
I like how little attention this got in the news at the time. /s
They'll just say more guns and you know it.
"Clearly, the 800 police officers that were there weren't enough. 1,600 cops would have made those villains think twice!"
As the saying goes, when seconds count the police are minutes away.
Highschool dropouts need jobs too
If you had a gun would you pull it? There were likely hundreds of guns there. But there was also hundreds of police officers ready to take down anyone with a gun.
At least two of the shooters were taken down by unarmed bystanders who immediately tackled them to the ground.
Linebackers, not guns.
Not an option you have if theres people between you and the shooter like a dense crowd, and firing through a crowd is general frowned upon, even when you're trying to not hit them. The last thing you do if you have a gun in that situation is pull it out before you have cover and know where the threat is coming from or your will absolutely be shot by the cops if not the shooter. Dense crowding also played a part in why they were able to be tackled to the ground. A lot harder to get close if the shooting starts and no one's physically near the shooter.
Lol the fuck would I want a gun for? I think you misunderstood my sarcasm
"Well... why wouldn't you want a gun? It's badass. What, are you one of them huggy, feely readin' queers?"
Yes actually.
That was sarcasm.
But I keep being told that these mass shooters only target gun free zones because they're easy targets.
So what are we tolerating all these mass shooters for, if gun owners aren't delivering on their promises?
Soon with AI it will be:
But what if the streets themselves had guns.
Whimper… if only the federal government hadn’t banned sales of Milkor MGLs to the public, my relative would still be alive now.
If my armed drones had been circling, I could have dealt with the problem with minimal, minimal additional casualties.
But you could be sure the bad guy would be caught up in the kill zone I circled on my drone app on the IPad
I was reading a book about how people change their minds and this is true. Horrible trauma is one of the ways people change.