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Old 06-23-2021, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
I'm not a gun fan. I'm personally against firearms. All of them. I'm absolutely anti-NRA as it exists today.

But if I ever read a story in a mainstream newspaper, or on mainstream TV, about a citizen in Las Vegas carrying her weapon legally, and managing to successfully prevent the mass shooter by getting him first square in the middle of his forehead, I would be VERY happy to have read it. I would have joined in the masses hailing her as a hero.
Does it also have to happen on a Tuesday, in the Fall, after 8PM, and with the sun shining at a 45 degree angle in order to be valid for you?

You wrote you had heard of NONE, you were provided links to several, you choose to ignore the data.

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That didn't happen though.

It also didn't happen at the Pulse nightclub. Or in Newtown CT. Or at Stoneman Douglas High. Or Rockford IL, Tampa FL, Boynton Beach FL, Atkins, Arkansas, Chicago, Venus, TX, or any of the other dozens of shootings involving more than one victim in a public location around the country in the past few years.
Of course it didn't happen in those cases, if it HAD happened then there wouldn't be those cases.

You don't hear about mass shootings that were prevented because, well, they were not mass shootings. Articles are written about the citizens preventing the tragedies but they aren't as sexy and don't make the national news.

Plus, you were provided with cases where that DID happen and you chose to ignore them which could lead one to believe that you are a tad biased and have somewhat selective memory.

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Rapid-fire weapons exist to harm as many people as possible in the shortest period of time. That is why they were invented, why they are marketed, why they exist. Sure lots of people just use them for target shooting at the range. But that's not what they're for.

And no one has successfully stopped a mass shooter from shooting masses with rapid-fire weapons - and in fact, no one has even TRIED to shoot a mass shooter while the mass shooter was actively shooting people...

If someone had stepped up, it would've made national news.
Again, you were provided with articles, you choose to ignore them.

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Threatening Jimbob from stealing yer beer at the redneck rave isn't newsworthy (unless Jimbob's throat gets slit or his mom gets impaled on a log, which actually happened this week).
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