She risked killing someone (including bystanders) to stop someone fleeing with items from Home Depot?
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The Heroic Gunslinger Fantasy
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She risked killing someone (including bystanders) to stop someone fleeing with items from Home Depot?
lain:
Is she really a rare anomaly? I'm not sure. How many people who are carrying guns are looking and hoping for an opportunity to use it? I bought my first gun at the Tanner Gun Show. First pistol ever with absolutely no training before hand. In most of Colorado I am allowed to open carry that gun. If you saw me with a gun, would you trust me to use it appropriately? There is no requirement on me to qualify with that gun let alone re-qualify. Just buy it and I'm good to go.
Now, lets say I want to get a concealed carry permit. Now I do have classes I am required to take. Once. Once I have the permit, I can buy as many guns as I want and conceal carry any one of them. Say I qualify on a .22 single action revolver. Then I go buy a 1911 .45 and start carrying it instead. Was the one class I had, say, five years ago sufficient to qualify me to carry a .45? There is no requirement for me to re-qualify periodically nor is there a requirement for me to qualify for each gun I may carry.
So how rare is pistol Annie really?
PureX
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Sadly, the marketing of fantasies has become big business. And big business now owns the media and the government, alike. So there is very little hope of any reasonable resolution to these 'righteous gunslinger' fantasies and their deadly fallout anytime soon. Nor is there any real hope of combatting the absurd misinformation and rationalizations that go along with them. Nor is there any hope that our politicians will suddenly start turning down the bribe money offered to them by these big businesses for maintaining those fantasies as a rule of law.
So sadly, there is little reason to be hopeful, period.
In a democracy, creating and controlling people's fantasies is everything!
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
no, i'm sure there are dozens of these incidents happening every day that the msm is covering up
This is what the gun lobby likes to call a "defensive gun use". That, and hearing a noise, getting your gun, and walking around your house looking out the windows.
Too bad you don't get the concept, leftist (Eccl 10:2, Jn 10:10).
"Too bad." :chz4brnz: ~ Seth Brundle, The Fly
To bad you just shoot from the hip. Please read the article first or go away.
Isn't it sad that peoples' God-given rights aren't based on what you want? If rights were based on competency, a good majority of liberals wouldn't have a right to speak freely.
Irrelevant. Every move that the President takes is pre planned. Extensive security planning goes into his travel plans with the assistance of local and State Police.
Even though they allegedly haven't fired a shot (we don't know what's happened behind the scenes when they investigate assassination plots), they won't hesitate to do so to save the President's life.
The same goes for private citizens, they shouldn't hesitate when it comes to defending their and their family's lives.
Arthur Brain
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Grief, is there any thread you don't spam up SD?
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It'll stay right where it is, partner (Eccl 10:2, Jn 10:10). :BillyBob: You're not getting our guns (Lk 22:36).
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
you should start a thread whining about her
Arthur Brain
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If competence is the yardstick then you'd be lucky to get a job as a toilet cleaner...
lain:
If competence is the yardstick then you'd be lucky to get a job as a toilet cleaner...
You're being disruptive Arthurrrrr. Go arrange some flowers or something useful.
Arthur Brain
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Rights do not come without responsibility. I have the right to free speech. I do not have the right to yell fire in a crowded theater.
When president Reagan was shot, it was not planned. The secret service all drew guns yet did not fire a single shot. They prevented collateral damage.Irrelevant. Every move that the President takes is pre planned. Extensive security planning goes into his travel plans with the assistance of local and State Police.
Even though they allegedly haven't fired a shot (we don't know what's happened behind the scenes when they investigate assassination plots), they won't hesitate to do so to save the President's life.
The same goes for private citizens, they shouldn't hesitate when it comes to defending their and their family's lives.
Like wise, if you are going to defend your family, or home Depot, you have the reasonably to prevent collateral damage. If I drew my gun to defend home Depot and accidentally shot your kid in the head, would you be okay with how I exercised my right?
Lon
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Read more from your own Cornell Law link. They break down, legally, why it applies in connection with the 14th amendment etc.
She risked killing someone (including bystanders) to stop someone fleeing with items from Home Depot?
Uh...yes. Yes, she did. And I'm sure this maniac thought she was doing the right thing.
Years ago, my father was a real estate agent in Michigan and often had need to carry a good amount of cash on his person. He requested a concealed carry permit and was denied, despite the personal references of a state rep and his broker, who happened to be a Freemason in good standing with the community. Point being--at least back then--a concealed carry's not exactly easy to come by in the Wolverine State. Maybe things have eased up over the years but I'd be very interested in knowing how exactly this woman was licensed to carry and what her background is.
So in war, if there is an imbalance of firepower the side with less will have less violence? Interesting logic.