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Man attacked for wearing MAGA hat draws gun, sparks mall panic in Eastern Pa.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^
| January 8, 2020
| The Associated Press
Posted on 01/09/2020 11:35:34 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Mariner
From the comments at the link the original report said they were outside of Macys not in the mall. Commenters were saying this isnt the first time there fake news local paper twisted words. I believe that is why the authority said the man would not be charged... he wasnt in the gun free zone.
To: blam
I have a Bond Arms Rowdy in .45colt/.410 in my pocket where ever I go. Not going to be a victim and I wear Trump T’s and Hats. I seek only Peace but it is my duty to protect my family. Better to have it and not need it
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posted on
01/09/2020 3:52:42 PM PST
by
halfright
(Deplorable in Florida...ANYONE SEEN Hunter??)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
01/09/2020 4:49:17 PM PST
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4Liberty
(Impeached, for a retort about Rosie's unhealthy weight. Why not for Obama's "Special Olympics" slur?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Instead of pulling the gun and being potentially charged with brandishing, perhaps informing the libtard that you are armed would be sufficient.
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01/09/2020 8:06:36 PM PST
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(Presidents can now be impeached for high crimes, misdemeanors or because DemocRATS hate them.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
He did not get charged, in spite of his committing a technical trespass by carrying into the gun-free zone at the mall. That is good. I cannot blame him for carrying wherever he goes. Gun-free zones are disasters waiting to happen, IMO.
Does PA ban carry in some way at malls? I know most in Texas (the malls themselves, not the government) technically ban it, but they don't post signs on every entrance (or really any entrance), so you can carry around as much as you want, security will just ask you to leave at some point.
To: 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.
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.
To: Svartalfiar
OK, one more time, for the folks in the back of the theater, I made a mistake. He actually drew down on his attacker outside the mall, but the Pest-Jizzette re-wrote an AP sentence to make it seem like he might have drawn his gun inside the mall near Macy’s. I won’t apologize for this error, but the prick editor that did the deed should.
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01/11/2020 4:02:51 PM PST
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Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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