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.
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Local reporting says that the good guy came up BE
HIND the perp & used the pepper spray.
The perp didn’t see him coming.
Won’t work in all cases.
Besides, I don’t want to be that close to any perp if I can help it.
I live rural. Have very alert dogs. I have time to get to my weapons.
“””So it’s a good thing he didn’t have a 30 round clip.”””
Never seen a 30 round clip. Maybe a 30 round magazine, yeah, but 30 round clip?
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