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Worffan101 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:26 pm
The shotgun was empty, you fucking moron.
Abdul Aziz literally threw the fucking empty shotgun at the terrorist's car window.
Still a pretty cowboy move though.
A "good guy with a gun", like Rashid, would have been shot by the terrorist as a priority target. With no warning, having a gun wouldn't have done such a person any good.
Unless the terrorist didn't know about it, which is kind of the point of concealed carry.
My god, arguing with you is like sticking my dick in a meat grinder.
Yet you keep insisting on doing it. At least if you actually did insist on sticking your dick in a grinder that might mean the world would be spared from any potential offspring.
"Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough."
-TR
This is a dude who has Kamina's glasses on Teddy Roosevelt's avatar - Gurren Lagann being the MANLIEST sci-fi anime to ever exist, where sheer testosterone and dick-waving can shatter galaxies. It's no surprise he resorts to that cowboy stuff.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
Oh, and I absolutely admire anyone who would manage to disarm their would-be murderer, try to use their own weapon on them, and upon finding it empty, would throw that shit like a javelin at them. It is an act worthy of story and song. Hope he doesn't get into any legal trouble for it.
"Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough."
-TR
I have yet to finish it. I want to, but knowing what's coming is a bit painful.
I think there's a grain of admiration for vigilante justice in us all. After all, many of us on this forum would admit to being Batman fans. But the thing with Batman is that he doesn't seek to deliberately kill. It's too easy to kill your enemy. There are ways other than that which you can outsmart and outwit your enemy. And vigilante justice is a very thin line in some places that can cross from "justice" to "criminal." Take that dude in Florida, that Peruvian, who felt "threatened" by that black kid, was it Travyon Martin? I forgot his name. So he literally CHASED HIM DOWN AND SHOT HIM. He was acquitted by his jury. Since the system isn't perfect, there is also the temptation to just burn it down and start a new one. But that's no guarantee the new one will be any better. It's a sad state of affairs to the current world. We're still suffering from the same problems we had 10,000 years ago. And I think we always will.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
Admiral X wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:49 pm
Oh, and I absolutely admire anyone who would manage to disarm their would-be murderer, try to use their own weapon on them, and upon finding it empty, would throw that shit like a javelin at them. It is an act worthy of story and song. Hope he doesn't get into any legal trouble for it.
Just so everyone has they're facts straight, a different guy tried to disarm the gunman, and he was shot and killed. At the other location, one guy ran at the gunman to distract him, threw a credit card reader at him, then picked a shotgun up after the gunman emptied and dropped it, threw it at the gunman's car, and then the gunman drove off.
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There's your "good guy with a gun," X! Just another "dead victim."
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
I am pro second amendment, but I accept that it will make it easier for madmen to do horrible acts such as this. My heart sinks every time I see one of these attacks happen, but these attacks are done by others, not by myself, and not most of 100,000,000 gun owners in the U.S. I don't believe a "good guy with a gun" is some guarantee of safety though I do believe it might mitigate the damage these attacks cause. I don't have an answer to how to prevent this from happening.
