• GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Apparently, the shooter was a firearms instructor. Aka, good guy with a gun turned bad guy with a gun.

    This crap will never end until the tools they use to kill are off the streets.

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      Apparently, the shooter was a firearms instructor.

      Every gun owner thinks they’re a responsible gun owner.

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        1 year ago

        Probably a “Look down the barrel to make sure there is no bullet in there” type.

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        Not my shocked face!!

        …Support for Trump, among other politicians. As shown by the video, Card liked tweets from high-profile conservative figures such as Donald Trump Jnr., Tucker Carlson, Dinesh D’Souza. He also engaged with publications from former house speakers Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan, as per the video.

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        I think that’s the same error in judgement that leads the vast majority of motorists to believe their driving skills are above average. Forgot what it’s called.

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      Which is the key problem. Everyone is a “responsible gun owner” and “good guy with a gun”… until sometimes they suddenly aren’t anymore. At which point your protection is what was person able to keep under normal circumstances aka what they had in their possession on the moment they had a mental snap.

      Was it a semi-auto shoot as fast as your finger pulls rifle with potentially hundreds of rounds in quick swap magazines or do they have a manual action hunting rifle or shotgun with fixed magazine, that need to be manually reloaded.

      Do they have a pistol with again potentially hundreds of rounds of quick reload ammunition or don’t or maybe a target pistol with fixed magazine.

      That is why places around the world have magazine and type restrictions, since they exactly know “checking backgrounds isn’t fool proof and now amount of background checking helps again sudden newly emerging situation after the checks have been done”.

      Sure that 5 round moose hunting rifle will absolutely wreck say those 5 people, but one can’t exactly run amock shooting around endlessly with moose rifle. Damage limitation. 5 dead people is better situation, than 22 dead people. As cold calculating as that is.

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        Everyone is a “responsible gun owner” and “good guy with a gun”… until sometimes they suddenly aren’t anymore.

        Yeah, and unpopular opinion likely but I think of this similarly to dogs turning on their owners.

        And similarly I’d rather have a Yorkshire terrier go crazy on me than a Pitbull.