[wastoute]

Mixed here. Without all the facts I am hesitant but as a general thing I am against “showing” some one a weapon. If you had a reason to get it out you had a reason to use it and the two should not be “separate” decisions. That sort of stuff gets you killed.

[zipper]

I wouldn’t either, but those that do are asserting their right to do so. They deserve protection and support from us.

[romanesq]

“Without all the facts I am hesitant but as a general thing I am against “showing” some one a weapon. If you had a reason to get it out you had a reason to use it and the two should not be “separate” decisions. That sort of stuff gets you killed.”

Or locked up and imprisoned.
Note, none of the seditionists have been arrested to date yet supporters of President Trump have faced much prosecution and persecution.

It did derail with the Jussie Smollet Hoax but not for their lack of effort.

[Svartalfiar]

Mixed here. Without all the facts I am hesitant but as a general thing I am against “showing” some one a weapon. If you had a reason to get it out you had a reason to use it and the two should not be “separate” decisions. That sort of stuff gets you killed.

Or, more often, that sort of stuff forces the bad guy to de-escalate and saves you from having to spend months fighting the cops to get your gun back. If you're lucky enough for them to decide it was a 'good shoot' and don't arrest/charge you.

NRA-ILA has their Armed Citizen series, with plenty of stories of people being saved without even firing a shot.

And, if you read any of John Lott's stuff, he has an estimate of ~2MM defensive gun users per year, and 98% of those were reported as simply brandishing/non-shooting uses. Even using the anti-gun folk's low estimate of 430M uses per year, that's still hundreds of thousands of non-shooting defensive situations.

Almost no one wants to actually shoot someone, and many people probably aren't psychologically prepared to do so, unless circumstances desperately require it.