Posted on 07/20/2022 12:29:30 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
While speaking Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering (D) suggested an armed citizen engaging the July 4 parade attacker would have meant “more carnage.”
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) asked Rotering, “How much can we count on a good guy with a gun to stop a mass shooter when the mass shooter has an AR-15-style ‘assault weapon’ that can empty a 30-round magazine in about as many seconds?”
Rotering responded, “A good guy with a gun would have had no impact on the shooter.”
She went on to describe witness testimony of the sounds of bullets ricocheting and added, “And we had good guys on sight who were trained, who got there within seconds, and it was just too hard to see where [the attacker] was.”
Rotering mentioned a rifle round’s effectiveness against certain types of body armor. then said, “I think the fact that we had less than a minute should tell anyone who thinks a good guy with a gun would have had an impact, the only thing you would have happened would have been more chaos, more carnage.”
On Sunday, an attacker with a rifle opened fire in Indiana’s Greenwood Park Mall and police noted that 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken drew a handgun and “neutralized” the attacker in 15 seconds.
The NRA noted that Dicken began engaging the attacker from a distance of 40 yards. Dicken fired ten rounds, hitting the attacker with eight of those rounds and ending the attack.
Dicken does not have any formal police or military firearm training. Rather, “he learned to shoot from his grandfather,” WTHR pointed out.
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Yes, they are different situations.
Does the fact that Highland Park involved a guy in a sniper position on a roof, negate the fact that a good guy with a gun stopped a slaughter in that mall in Indiana?
Why is Dick Durbin even eliciting such testimony from her, to get her to say that a good guy with a gun would not have been able to stop the Highland Park massacre? We will never know for sure, but even if true, what does that have to do with the concept, that a good man on scene can stop a madman bent on destruction?
More theater of the absurd.
Looks like she forgot her Starbucks…
No, it just proves that Democrats will whine about anything in their crusade against self defense.
CSGO players go for head shots. Grandpa probably trained him center mass. Between the two he would have saved many from the roof shooter. You are not thinking of the adrenaline a player feels and that of someone without muscle memory. Eli did awesome in the mall and I believe he would have done awesome there. A few more killed I am sure, but head popped up to aim he would have shot him between the eyes. You need to practice at the range, but the adrenaline... it works out gaming. No jitter. If you can shoot, you are steady.
If this is the LEO you are referencing, you owe an apology! “He was detained and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene, per Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw. The GUILT lies on the person who gave that order and the those that followed those orders!
Yes, might well.
Yep, going to put my family’s safety in her hands. (extreme sarcasm)
Great pic!
Who is it?
Yep, she’s got that angry look about her.
"Now I've done it - I've cut the dickens out of myself!"
shooterboy:
"Now Eli has done it - I've had the Dickens shot out of me!"
shooterboy. Eli Dicken made him deceased.
Wow
I had not seen that pic
It is magnificent
Thank you for posting
Different situations.
You got your dead punk in the middle of the mall
You got your dead punk in the middle of the mall
And he’s stinking to high heaven.🤔
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