Posted on 07/19/2022 4:03:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
For gun-control advocates, anyone with a weapon is a ‘bad guy.’
After a video of law enforcement officers acting like utter cowards at the Uvalde school shooting was released, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., claimed that the incident “puts to bed, forever, the question of whether the way to deal with bad guys with guns is to make sure there are more good guys with guns.”
Well, “forever” ended this weekend, when a 22-year-old fatally shot a man armed with an AR-15 who had opened fire in a mall food court in Greenwood, Indiana, killing three. We don’t know all the specifics — and we’ll never know how many lives the Good Samaritan saved — but it is clear Murphy’s assertion was incorrect on two counts: Cops who stand around while children are being slaughtered aren’t “good guys,” but real good guys with guns do exist.
Gun controllers assure us they don’t oppose the Second Amendment, they merely want to pass “common sense” gun laws that take “weapons of war” out of the hands of bad guys. Yet their policy proposals and rhetoric tell us something very different. Anti-gun zealots are so singularly focused on guns, they refuse to even acknowledge that the right to personal self-defense exists. Indeed, they can’t even concede that a person carrying a gun legally (as, it seems, the hero in Indiana did) or obtaining a concealed-carry license — and these people are less likely to engage in criminality than cops — might serve a positive use, like mitigating the tragedy of a mall shooting.
If you think I exaggerate, here is Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, noting that, “when a 22-year-old illegally brings a loaded gun into a mall and kills a mass shooter armed with an AR-15 after...
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They can never admit they’re wrong.
Reportedly, it was not an AR15. It was a Sig Sauer M400.
They know they’re wrong, they don’t care.
Their real objective is to disarm us so that we are vulnerable to them and their thugs.
The perp was well-funded. Had a good bit of arms an ammo.
Follow the money.
I’d like to own that Sig, but it’s $,$$$.
Mistaking it for an AR-15 is understandable.
https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/sig-sauer-m400-rifle/
For accuracy...from firearmnewsdotcom: Introduced in late 2018, the SIG M400 TREAD is still one of the two best AR-15s on the market priced under $1,000.
Wrong. They gave up that pretense, completely, in the runup to 2020.
It all depends on the situation and the people who are there. In some cases you will have concealed carry people like the hero in Indiana who went towards the shooter and saved lives. In other cases you will have concealed carry people who head he other way and watch out for themselves. It's not, and never will be, a hard and fast rule.
It uses ate AR-15 platform. Most of the rifles referred to as AR-15’s aren’t actual AR-15”s.
It’s called “situational awareness.”
Uvalde reinforces one of the reasons we have the 2A, that government on any level cannot be depended on when a bad guy wants to kill.
Being aware of the situation does not guarantee preferred results. Depends on the individual and always will.
Why can’t libtards acknowledge the absolute necessity for personal concealed carry in the crime ridden environment that libtards created? Yeah, I wonder ......... /s
They aren’t anti-gun, they’re anti-gun for you and I. They fully expect to be protected from their “lessors” by men with guns.
Well, there was Ed Koch’s adage that nice guys who own guns are not nice guys.
Democrat scum only care about oppressing freedom.
“Being aware of the situation does not guarantee preferred results. Depends on the individual and always will.”
It always depends on that individual. But it would make a potential shooter gives pause in knowing that someone around him “might” be carrying. What liberals will never understand is the police do not prevent crime. They respond to crime.
I’m a gun owner, with my license to carry, however when I leave my home I don’t. I am probably one of those individuals who would not jump into the fray and start shooting. That attitude is quickly changing to a point where I need to get my wife to the range and buy her a weapon for self defense.
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