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Ignore NRA fantasy world: Good guy with pepper spray stops bad guy with gun
The Kansas City Star ^ | 06-06-2014 | Yael T. Abouhalkah

Posted on 06/06/2014 5:43:55 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016

The gun lovers who preach that arming American citizens to stop even more violence always ignore the fact that Wayne LaPierre was wrong.

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president, infamously said after a gunman in 2012 killed 20 schoolchildren and six adults in Newtown, Conn.

Yet looked what happened Thursday.

According to police, a student building monitor named Jon Meis used pepper spray to subdue a shooter who had already killed one student and wounded a couple others at Seattle Pacific University in Washington.

Police said the actions by Meis probably saved more lives, because the gunman had extra shotgun shells he could have used after reloading.

In the larger scheme of things, Meis’ use of pepper spray to halt the killings are at odds with the actual facts of how often a “good guy” with a gun stops a “bad guy” with a gun.

Basically, it doesn’t happen.

It’s a fantasy of the NRA and its most ardent gun-rights supporters.

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: banglist; barfalert; gun; guns; nra; pepperspray; seattle; shooting; washington
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To: PaulCruz2016

Only a Democrat would be stupid enough to think it’s a good idea to take a can of spray to a gun fight.


21 posted on 06/06/2014 6:05:07 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: PaulCruz2016

For the record, the person Abouhalkah is named after killed a man with a weapon other than a gun.


22 posted on 06/06/2014 6:05:58 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: SSS Two

Imagine that, a Muslim who wants to disarm all Americans...

Whoda thunkit...


23 posted on 06/06/2014 6:11:10 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: bamahead

So it’s a good thing he didn’t have a 30 round clip. Glad his lethality was limited by his gear.


24 posted on 06/06/2014 6:11:43 PM PDT by christx30 (Freedom above all.)
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To: PaulCruz2016

Yael doesn’t have an original thought

Just another Affirmative Action Jackson token “journ-O-list”


25 posted on 06/06/2014 6:12:51 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Shame on Sam The Sham . . . Michael ScAM . . .$$$ grab all planned by this "handlers")
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To: PaulCruz2016

You can’t fix delusional and stupid.


26 posted on 06/06/2014 6:15:31 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Be a part of the American freedom migration: freestateproject.org)
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To: PaulCruz2016

I apologize for using feminine pronouns when referring to Yael Abouhalkah. Yael is a common female name in Israel, but this particular Yael appears to be male.


27 posted on 06/06/2014 6:16:29 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: christx30

Of course it’s very fortunate he did not have a larger capacity weapon. It’s the premise in the article that pepper spray could stop ANY shooter in any situation that is absurd.

Make no mistake, the guy who did stop the shooter with pepper spray is a BRAVE HERO.


28 posted on 06/06/2014 6:20:33 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: christx30

If a soldier ever gets into a firefight that lasts longer than five seconds, he’ll curse the day he decided to carry a shotgun into combat.


29 posted on 06/06/2014 6:21:16 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: SSS Two

“Abouhalkah....just wants to disarm law abiding citizens and leave guns in the hands of [Muslims]. As for her motive, I’ll leave that up to you to figure out.”

With that name, her motive is that she’s...a muzzie?


30 posted on 06/06/2014 6:23:20 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: PaulCruz2016

Pepper spray works great when the shooter has no rounds in his weapon.


31 posted on 06/06/2014 6:23:52 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: PaulCruz2016

A good resource for gun owners fighting back is http://www.easybakegunclub.com

Updated every day. Good stories and reviews on that site as well.


32 posted on 06/06/2014 6:24:24 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
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To: PaulCruz2016

IBTZ


33 posted on 06/06/2014 6:24:35 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: SSS Two

So far left he/she is probably “transgender”


34 posted on 06/06/2014 6:26:31 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Shame on Sam The Sham . . . Michael ScAM . . .$$$ grab all planned by this "handlers")
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To: PaulCruz2016
The gun lovers who preach that arming American citizens to stop even more violence always ignore the fact that Wayne LaPierre was wrong.

Sophistry.

American citizens to not have to provide justification for exercising a civil right.

35 posted on 06/06/2014 6:27:48 PM PDT by holymoly
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To: elcid1970

Yael Abouhalkah is a male. No idea about his name, but Yael appears in several languages (such as Yale in English).


36 posted on 06/06/2014 6:28:47 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: PaulCruz2016

How much you wanna bet the guy was wishing he had a gun instead of that pepper spray?


37 posted on 06/06/2014 6:28:49 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: PaulCruz2016

Good guys and gals with a .40 Glock is better.


38 posted on 06/06/2014 6:33:51 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: jjotto

He’s still a muzzie, right?


39 posted on 06/06/2014 6:38:37 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: elcid1970

It’s an Arab name, but I don’t know if it’s Arab Christian.


40 posted on 06/06/2014 6:44:05 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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