IBTZ
Sophistry.
American citizens to not have to provide justification for exercising a civil right.
How much you wanna bet the guy was wishing he had a gun instead of that pepper spray?
Good guys and gals with a .40 Glock is better.
But in GEORGIA, it took a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun again.
I give the guy with the pepperspray big props, he is a hero, no doubt about it. He’s also very lucky and obviously brave. He and his actions deserve to be rewarded and celebrated.
But with that said, what would have happened if the attacker was one of those who can tolerate irritant sprays, or worse, he was ready for the guy with a backup pistol, knife, or etc.? Thing is, every encounter like this is unique in circumstance, the antis touting the spray as just as effective as firearms, are living in a fantasy world. In this case, the circumstances just happened to be right for the guy to succeed in defeating the attacker.
There’s this odd notion that a summary of a position can be dismissed because, as demonstrated by a single sensible exception/anecdote, the brief summary is not of peer-reviewed encyclopedic completeness.
Yes, by far, it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. That’s why cops carry guns. That someone with pepper spray stopped someone with a gun is a sensible exception to the rule without negating the rule, and does not justify disarming cops and fitting them with Dave’s Insanity Sauce in aerosol form.
Hey Yael, lets test that.
You take the pepper spray, I’ll take the gun.
Let’s see what happens...
And to think that there are conservatives who think the Libs are intellectual, and actually make a living telling us how debating Libs is the only way forward, Hello George Will. Basically I am saying the author of this article is a moron. Heck his fellow mooslim, Major Hassan killed at least one person who tried to disarm him, what about that Alliboobookah?
He was in violation of the order to “hunker down”.
Can’t have civilians going all “superhero” can we?
Off-hand, I can think of three.
There was most definitely the church shooting in CO Springs.
If I remember right, a school shooting in VA or somewhere near there, and it seems there was a mall shooting in UT or someplace.
Yael is a leftist moron, once of the reasons I refuse to read the KC Red Star (and I live in the KC Metro.)
What he’s saying here is, as usual, idiotic. That a one-time fluke proves his fantasy. I’ve got a suggestion, Yael: Get the KCPD to disarm, except for pepper spray. Using your... well, what ever it is that you substitute for thought... the police have no reason for firearms, since in this ONE CASE, a shooter was disarmed by someone with pepper spray, disproving the statement by Wayne LaPiere.
Disproved. Yeah, right.
Hey Yael, I heard that they revived someone who had been underwater for more than 10 minutes with no lingering brain damage... I guess that means we can leave drowning victims under water for at least 9 minutes before needing to save them, right?
Yes, Yael is a moron.
Mark
Of course, how many instances of someone successfully using a gun in self-defense do these windbags ignore to arrive to such thinking?
“To reach Yael T. Abouhalkah, call 816-234-4887 or send email to abouhalkah@kcstar.com. Twitter @YaelTAbouhalkah.”
Anyone up for flooding his email with stories of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun?
Most of the time pepper spray will not beat a gun, he’s lucky he got close enough.
And aren’t libs against pepper spray and knives as well as guns?
Why are we not hearing anything about the shooter and why he did this?
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.