The NRA has seemingly been fairly quiet on this one. Strange since they're the first to point out how more guns could have averted tragedies when shootings like this happen in states/areas with heavier gun restrictions, yet it still happened in TX when multiple people with guns were present, both police and private citizens exercising their right to open-carry. Just food for thought.
Originally posted by MS Warehouse
i understand that so how does less guns here make it safer when there's one shooter? Wouldn't an extra gun possibly help?
It obviously didn't otherwise the "extra gun" would've killed the shooter
If there's a shooting going on and you've got an open carry permit for a gun and are walking about with it on show then I wonder what your chances of being shot and killed by law enforcement are compared to someone not open carrying a gun.
Originally posted by jaden101
It obviously didn't otherwise the "extra gun" would've killed the shooterIf there's a shooting going on and you've got an open carry permit for a gun and are walking about with it on show then I wonder what your chances of being shot and killed by law enforcement are compared to someone not open carrying a gun.
So no extra gun is somehow better than an extra gun? Having virtually NO chance of protection is better than minimal chance. That's what you're saying?
Originally posted by MS Warehouse
So no extra gun is somehow better than an extra gun? Having virtually NO chance of protection is better than minimal chance. That's what you're saying?
What I'm saying is that all those extra guns made absolutely zero difference in the Dallas shooting. None whatsoever.
What I'm also saying is that in a country where police seem to be increasingly ready to shoot and kill people then perhaps in a confused and dangerous situation such as a shooter on the loose that maybe openly carrying a weapon means the likelihood of being shot by police is a bigger risk than being shot by the shooter.
Not only that but if there are numerous people openly carrying weapons then the emergency services would likely receive more reports of people with guns which could divert units away from the actual shooter and so result in them being able to kill even more people.
The solution is don't commit crimes, don't use your race as an excuse to commit crimes, and don't resist arrest. Boom, then you aren't very likely to get shot by a cop.
We also need to stop making immediate saints out of people with rap sheets half a mile long. Doesn't mean they deserved to die, but it doesn't mean you don't acknowledge their criminal lifestyle lead to this outcome.
We all want to talk about better training for police officers, etc. as if they are the only people in this that need to change. They are not.
At this point it's like the black community is just super confused because there is no method to this madness. When Mike Brown was killed by a cop they..didn't riot and go after white cops, they burned buildings and looted businesses..mostly black owned businesses. Then just like in Dallas..not even all the cops shot were white. Yet this was supposedly about white police brutality but they kill black and hispanic cops too.
Its very apparent now this was a conspiracy.
This was a planned attack, and he just randomly shows up planned and ready to do on a protest that was not even in the same city as the said events?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/10/politics/dallas-shooting-police-chief-david-brown/index.html