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2015-12-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Why ‘Good Guys’ With Guns Won’t Keep Us Safe

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Posted by badanov 2015-12-08 05:47|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It's like the lottery. The odds are heavily against you to win, but are infinitely greater in winning than those who don't play the lottery.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-12-08 08:55|| 2015-12-08 08:55|| Front Page Top

#2 But, suppose, good guys will start doing preventive actions?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-12-08 09:14|| 2015-12-08 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 It's like the lottery. The odds are heavily against you to win, but are infinitely greater in winning than those who don't play the lottery.

The lottery is a giant gov't ponsi scheme. Just like their other ponsi schemes. You win by not participating.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-12-08 09:16|| 2015-12-08 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Sure. That's why shooters always strike gun free zones.

Posted by Fester Platypus5543 2015-12-08 10:20|| 2015-12-08 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry Honey.
If the bad guys go down quicker because there's sheepdogs about, that's a win.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-12-08 15:36|| 2015-12-08 15:36|| Front Page Top

#6 The point is to shoot back, because these thugs are cowards. As soon as they perceive that they could be shot, they stop shooting random people and start trying to protect themselves.

You don't need to hit them at all, just send a few rounds their way to make the situation change.

Posted by rammer 2015-12-08 19:32|| 2015-12-08 19:32|| Front Page Top

#7 As the attackers mowed people down, a police commissioner and his driver, learning from the police radio that they were near the site, sped to the concert hall before more elite teams could get there. They charged inside, shooting one of the gunmen before the attacker had a chance to use his high-powered rifle. Then they retreated so that special-operations teams could assemble.

It was a key action that slowed the pace of carnage. "In hindsight, I know that we saved dozens, maybe hundreds of lives," the commissioner, who hasn't been named, told private television channel M6. While the Bataclan death toll of at least 89 was horrific, most of the partygoers survived.

"It's their action that made it possible to stop the killing," Christophe Molmy, who heads the elite BRI police intervention squad, said of the police commissioner and his driver. When Molmy's rapid-reaction team arrived at 10:15, "there's no shooting, there's no noise, there's an oppressive silence inside the Bataclan."

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Posted by rammer 2015-12-08 19:37|| 2015-12-08 19:37|| Front Page Top

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