[Newsbot]

Title: Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: uwish
Date: 2012-07-27 10:03:15

[maldonsfecht]

well done citizen! that's a great use of the 2nd Amendment right there, without even needing to fire a shot

[2Cdo]

The man with the gun should be charged, he should have just stepped back and called the police.

Obviously a little sarcastic, well done to an armed citizen for stopping a violent act from escalating further.

[BartSimpson]

The perfect use of a citizen's firearm right there. Well done!

[desertdude]

One of the very very few times a gun was used properly by a civilian.

[raydan]

desertdude desertdude:

One of the very very few times a gun was used properly by a civilian.

That would be... unused.

[BartSimpson]

desertdude desertdude:

One of the very very few times a gun was used properly by a civilian.

That you heard of.

The media tends to decline to report proper use of firearms by civilians. Yet it happens all the time.

[Thanos]

Too bad incidents like this are outnumbered by about a thousand-to-one by improper and criminal uses of firearms.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

Too bad incidents like this are outnumbered by about a thousand-to-one by improper and criminal uses of firearms.

Too bad we have criminals. Fortunately, some people see the sense in being able to defend themselves (and others) from such brigands.

[Thanos]

No one's against self-defense. No one, except for the biggest nanny-state dickheads on the left, are against normal non-criminal citizens owning firearms. A lot of people are rightfully against criminals and lunatics have a right to possess and stockpile massive amounts of near-military grade hardware.

It's not a difficult concept. Some people are too dangerous, despite what the gun lobby in your country thinks, to be allowed to own firearms. Saying otherwise merely guarantees that mass murders will keep happening into perpetuity.

[uwish]

There are far more of these happenings than is reported by the main media news outlets. When some Texas and Florida Sheriffs were interviewed they claimed that armed CCW has drastically reduced the number of mass attacks.

[FurTrader4]

Right On!

[bootlegga]

Thanos Thanos:

Too bad incidents like this are outnumbered by about a thousand-to-one by improper and criminal uses of firearms.

Thanos Thanos:

No one's against self-defense. No one, except for the biggest nanny-state dickheads on the left, are against normal non-criminal citizens owning firearms. A lot of people are rightfully against criminals and lunatics have a right to possess and stockpile massive amounts of near-military grade hardware.

It's not a difficult concept. Some people are too dangerous, despite what the gun lobby in your country thinks, to be allowed to own firearms. Saying otherwise merely guarantees that mass murders will keep happening into perpetuity.

+5

As far as I'm concerned, guns are a lot like drugs.

People should be allowed to use the relatively 'harmless' ones like hunting rifles and shotguns (and marijuana), while assault rifles, submachineguns and other military hardware (crack, meth, heroin, etc) are banned.

[uwish]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1IKeyTvakA

[DanSC]

I'd hardly call a shotgun "harmless," especially as most criminals engage their victims at close range

But Bart's right (cue rage for saying Bart's right about something); stories of people successively defending themselves or others rarely makes the national news. Similarly, members of a criminal organization shooting a person in Camden, New Jersey, rarely makes the national news. Both happen fairly often; the individual stories just aren't national-newsworthy, unfortunately.

Consider that back in April, in Aurora, Colorado even, an off-duty who just happened to be in the congregation shot and stopped a murderer at a church.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/04/22/2 ... ra-church/

Did it make the national news? Of course not. One could say the story would only support an argument for off-duty police to carry guns. Yet, considering the history of police brutality in the USA, allowing cops, and only cops, to carry guns when they're not carrying their badges seems like a bad idea.