The Walmart Shooting

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  1. rcfoolinca288

    rcfoolinca288 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That is a FALSEHOOD given the INSANE amount of money we already spend on the military.
     
  2. rcfoolinca288

    rcfoolinca288 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    rcfoolinca288 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    To be fair...I guess it would be what the definition of an assault rifle is. That means different things to different people.
     
  4. drluggit

    drluggit Well-Known Member

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    LOL... do you feel triggered??
     
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    El Paso demonstrated just because a state allows people to openly carry, doesn't mean that state is safe.
     
  6. rcfoolinca288

    rcfoolinca288 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I doubt any of the employees are trained and even if so, I doubt Walmart would have let them used the firearms for fear of liabilities.
     
  7. rcfoolinca288

    rcfoolinca288 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No. Why don't you answer my question. It is a valid one since you are relying on a news source you guys often claimed as fake news.
     
  8. drluggit

    drluggit Well-Known Member

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    I see. So, only when some leftist refugee from the democratic suburbs of Dallas is out on the prowl means that the entire state isn't safe? Is that a correct summation of your post? Or are you attempting to make a more general assertion absent evidence? I couldn't decide.
     
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    Gun Nut NRA Jihadists call them sporting rifles...The rest of the civilized world?..............ASSAULT RIFLES
     
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    Ddyad Well-Known Member

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    That is just more irrational ad hominem nonsense.
    This is Baltimore where only the criminals and the cops have guns.

    "Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh was captured on camera saying “you can smell the rats” among other “offensive” but accurate remarks as she toured a low-income neighborhood in her crime-infested city.

    The Democrat mayor was slammed for being unprofessional and out-of-touch after touring an East Baltimore neighborhood with other city officials, which included vacant homes, the Baltimore Sun reported.

    “What the hell? We should just take all this sh*t down,” Pugh is heard saying in the clip, clearly overwhelmed by the scene. “Whoa, you can smell the rats.”

    “Whew, Jesus. Oh, my God, you can smell the dead animals,” she added, according to the Sun."
    Baltimore Mayor Pugh Says She Can “Smell the Rats”, By S. Noble, September 14, 2018.
    https://www.independentsentinel.com/baltimore-mayor-pugh-says-she-can-smell-the-rats/
     
  11. drluggit

    drluggit Well-Known Member

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    Perhaps not. But, I know a lot of folks who wouldn't have been shy and helped themselves. Probably would also have spent the time cleaning them up before giving them back....
     
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    Ddyad Well-Known Member

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    When only cops and criminals have guns the stage has been set for mass slaughter.
     
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    If you look at the El Paso shooter's manifesto, he most likely was not a leftist. The views in that manifesto regarding Hispanics is not too far off from Trump's.

    That said, out of a Walmart at full capacity, you don't think there weren't any "good guys with guns" near that store, even though it was a gun-free zone? Anyone who could've stepped inside the store and kept the shooter from creating anymore collateral damage? That someone near the Walmart had a gun in their cars they could've grabbed it in less than a minute? The possibilities here are endless. Yes, the point is that El Paso made Texas no more safer than California or New York, because if a shooting of that magnitude can happen without a good guy with a gun stepping in, it defeats the entire idea of a open carry state being a safer state.
     
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    drluggit Well-Known Member

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    Nah, i think you'd like to infer that, but I doubt that it rings with any truth. But the kid comes from liberal entitlement. Clearly. The broken drug addled parens, the new agist experience, all that. The product being that child who grew up to be a mass murderer. Do you suppose that makes some on the left smile, just a little bit? I do. I think it shows just how destructive the liberal lifestyle is, and the consequences are exactly the kind of mayhem that liberals are after.

    These are the catastrophes that lead, inexorably towards incremental tyranny.. This is exactly what the left live for.

    I cannot reconcile why good guy with gun didn't step in sooner here. Wasn't mr Beto the mayor once? Seems odd that it took 20 minutes for police to respond though... Can you imagine what he'd do to the nation then?
     
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    The data says you are wrong. The data says the more guns, the more gun violence. You don't work for the NRA do you?
     
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    It was texas so there were likely people in the store who were armed, and yet they did nothing.

    Isn'tthe whole point of gun rights because gun owners will always rush to save the day? What happens when the "good guys with guns" turn out to be cowards?
     
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    But.........you get that the idea isn't to limit the number of victims, right? It's just lucky cops (which is not the theory behind the "good guy" fallacy) were close to the scene.
     
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    There is no data that contradicts the obvious benefit received by any community as a whole when a violent criminal is shot down in the act by an armed citizen.

    More Armed Citizens = Less Crime
     
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    Thats insane rhetoric

    Your liberal culture is driving/has driven these mass shooters insane

    Even if you take all the guns - which you cant - crazy people will just find another way to kill
     
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    Relax,....... take a deep breath, ........it's gonna be OK Punkin

    Nobody uses that gun in war
     
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    Except he didn't.
     
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    I've had 3 background checks for purchases. Weird eh? Shall I complain?
     
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    Dude you look at it one paragraph on illegal immigrants followed by a multiple paragraph of environmental wackiness and a Trump disclaimer.
     
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    Paranoid Gun Nut Logic
     
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    I think so yes. I bought a mini at mine a few months back and iirc every rifle had a trigger lock.
     

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