Gun Owner Shoots Attacker While Holding Infant

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  1. rover77

    rover77 Well-Known Member

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    Another successful use of the new tactical baby shield. Where can get one of those?
     
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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I could so see my dad having done this when I was an infant.
     
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    Do you really not know where babies come from? ;)
     
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    Maccabee Well-Known Member

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    I kinda phased out at the part when my parents told me "when mommy and daddy love each other very much."
     
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    It gets scary after that.
     
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    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    lmao
     
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    I hear they rent them in Gaza
     
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    Glad I phased out then.
     
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    Happy story. I hope California authorities don’t screw it up by charging Mr Hutchinson.
     
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    You sure love to cherry pick. I am much more interested in statistical averages which the gun apologists on this board are in denial about. You can not come up with even one study which shows an association between gun ownership and greater safety. I can come up with many to show the opposite.
     
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    Does the absence of such studies do anything to impugn the legitimacy of the second amendment of the united states constitution? Is legal firearms ownership contingent upon demonstrating a compelling public net benefit in order to remain legal?
     
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    That's gun ownership in general - which include illegal gun possession by criminals who are more apt to misuse guns, inflating the numbers. Those same sides show that living alone or renting are more dangerous that owning guns. In fact, Kellermann's study on homicide showed that owning long guns had a lower risk for homicide than not owning guns at all. At best, such studies are a PSA. You trade risk for convenience all the time, or you'd eschew owning a car for public transport.
     
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    That's a hard sentence to write correctly. Your first sentence made it seem like the attacker had the infant, not the defender. (Defender being the man who used the gun in self defense).
     
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    No.
    No.

    We are aware of the problem of handgun violence in this country, and we take seriously the concerns raised by the many amici who believe that prohibition of handgun ownership is a solution. The Constitution leaves the District of Columbia a variety of tools for combating that problem, including some measures regulating handguns, see supra, at 54–55, and n. 26. But the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZO.html
     
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    A concealed carry license holder, while holding a 4-month old baby, fatally shot a man who attacked him on Wednesday night, police said.
     
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    Better. I realized what happened when I read the article, but it's a hard situation to explain in a headline type sentence.
     
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    who was holding the infant?
     
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    In other words, a more correct title would have been:

    Man holding infant is attacked, and subsequently shoots his attacker.
     
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    is Lon still around?
     
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    Kind of dumb he didn't put the infant down before confronting an out of control psychopath, but otherwise well done.
     
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    Not enough zing - you need the drama to draw the readers:

    Infant being held by father shoots attacker!

    Your welcome. ;)
     
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    usually the hospital.
     
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    I bet they have no socks on...
     

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