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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Hayes made an important point about the Las Vegas shooting tonight (at 7 pm).
He played the video of Wayne LaPierre saying that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
He pointed out that the two shooters, the two cops and the man at Wal-Mart, all five were dead and all had a gun.
I did not know that the man killed at Wal-Mart had a concealed carry permit and tried to stop the male shooter and was killed by the woman shooter.
So this was a scenario in which all five people were armed and all five died.
G_j
(40,366 posts)a lot more than your average "good guy" with a gun.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)That most cops remind me of these violent Tea Baggers. Where I live and it's not the ghetto cops kill unarmed people and dogs all the time and threaten to kill countless others. They are all the same to me.
Cha
(295,912 posts)brewens
(13,397 posts)I guess that makes the cops their bad guys and the Walmart customer as well if he had acted against the shooters.
Is that a strategy? Revolutionaries that shoot themselves after a victory? We might not have all that much to worry about in that case.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Salviati
(6,002 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,269 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)MSNBC tells all those inconvenient truths that people don't want to think about.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)In a store full of shoppers.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)I hadn't thought about what he noted... but definitely puts a damper on LaPierre's words.
I can't believe the NRA folks follow a 'Frenchie' like him.... I mean, really. LaPierre?
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certainot
(9,090 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)the same one the shooters draped over the cops dead or dying bodies along with Swastikas.
smallcat88
(426 posts)Twice. Weren't there like a ton of good guys with guns there?
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Ft Hood is a city within a city- 300 sq mi, 50,000 odd residents on any average day, with about as many MPs as a city that size usually has, but concentrated on the borders.
That's why it took outside law enforcement to take down Hasan.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Reagan gave us the Taliban, AQ, cocaine, and supported Saddam, Iran, and Pol Pot
same with "if you don't vote for a Dem who'll cut Social Security, ram through TPP, and start wars you'll get a Republican who'll cut Social Security, ram through TPP, and start wars AND YOU'LL HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS EEEEEEE"
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Is the reason for a young mans death. Fail