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Anonymous wrote:I would have more respect for police if they didn't support an increase in the number of armed citizens and if they didn't support AR-15s in the hands of civilians. You would think that the opposite would be true--that cops would want fewer guns on the street so that they wouldn't have to fear for their lives every time they go out on a shift. But, no, they want MORE guns under the theory that a "good guy" with a gun can help prevent mass shootings. Even though that rarely happens IRL...
Basically we're in a domestic arms race where "bad guys" and cops are equipped with more and more weapons and fear and paranoia increase.
The "good guy with a gun" who killed two terrorists in the recent Jerusalem bus station attack five days ago was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while he was kneeling on the ground with his hands up in the air. Netanyahu coldly responded to reporters about the tragic killing of the hero - "That's life."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/04/middleeast/castleman-israel-jerusalem-hamas-shot-backlash-intl/index.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/family-says-yuval-castleman-killed-after-taking-out-terrorists-was-executed/
Cops killed the "good guy with a gun" in the Arvada, CO mass shooting:
https://www.cpr.org/2022/06/22/olde-town-arvada-shooting-johnny-hurley/
What do soldiers in Israel have to do with mass shootings in U.S. schools? Did you have trouble staying on topic in school? Your comment will get lost when you could have posted it in an appropriate thread. You are just rage farming. There is no multinational police plot to kill citizens. Just a bunch of localized, incompetent cowards.
On the contrary, I find PP’s examples of the “good guy with a gun” being killed by other good guys with guns to be enlightening about the fallacy of “more weapons means more safety” argument.
This. Every gun used in a shooting was either:
a) Sold to a bad guy
b) Sold to a good guy then obtained by a bad guy (Sandy Hook, for example)
c) Sold to a good guy who, later on, became a bad guy
So even with increased background checks to prevent a) from happening, how do you stop b) and c) from happening short of reducing the number of guns that are sold?