Once agan, a theater full of sheeple and NOBODY had a gun. Again.
Folks taking your loved ones into no gun zones and not having your gun with you, and being trained to use it is just criminal negligence.
There are simply too many crazy people now to watch them all. Taking gun rights from the normal ones isn't the answer. Gun free zones are simply shooting galleries.
But trust me instead of ZERO people in a theater with a sidearm, if 30 men out with their loved ones were armed, not even a crazy person is going to attack.
Maybe we should start a publicity campain that if someone wants to go out in a blaze of glory they can go shoot up police stations. How many whackos do you think will take that on? None, but they will go shoot unarmed, self made victims.
Wake up people! Don't make yourself a victim.
Rant over.
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Having a bunch of people with guns in a crowded public place is a bad idea.
Once a crazy person DOES attack a group of people with guns not everyone will know who the gunman is, this will lead to confusion.
America has the most guns,and therefore the most gun violence. Doesn't take a genius to figure that that less guns means less gun violence. Other countries like Canada, Australia,and The UK can attest to this.
Saying "But, if everyone had guns then everyone would be scared to use them against others" is demonstrably false. Just like having gods or a god to worship doesn't stop people from being assholes either.
Cool.
And the next time there's a theater shooting, it can degenerate into 40 armed, frightened people firing in all directions in the dark, at anything that moves, in hopes of centerpunching the whackjob who fired first.
I'm sure thst's an improvement.
As an experiment take 30 people and give them paintball guns. Have them all perform different distracting activities so that the one person with instructions to start paintballing their fellow test subjects can potentially start their rampage before being identified.
See if even five participants get through the simulation with a clean shirt and not having shot the wrong person.
@ Saika
Watched it. I find it especially interesting that the enthusiasts were the ones who did the absolute worst while the woman with the least experience with guns made the smartest initial move by taking cover, panicked the least which allowed her to draw her gun without difficulty and actually get shots off, yet despite being the one who showed the best judgement under pressure (which is the most important thing in any crisis) ultimately failed to protect herself. The cocky sense of superiority of the people who were in love with the very idea of being gunslingers was ultimately what caused them to freeze and flail in the moment, neglecting cover and being more concerned with getting their guns out than actually mitigating danger.
There was a quote earlier this week with a line about the "good guys with guns" saving the day and preventing a massacre at Pamela Geller's hate fest in Texas by safely taking out the shooters. The "good guys" were, of course, paid law enforcement officials. Still waiting for that evidence about the capacity of the Responsible Gun Owner...
FUCK. YOU. You parasitic, selfish, loathsome, out of touch, death obsessed TWAT. I have fucking HAD IT with these fucking assholes. If you ever get shot at, THEN you can start to think about forming an opinion, if you're not lying on the floor with what little brains you have blown out. People are dying, masses of them almost on a weekly basis, because fuckers like you insist on giving deadly weapons to anyone and everyone. When someone who's disturbed gets one, shit like this happens. And that's just the mass shootings. I'm not counting the murders, the accidents, the misfires, the suicides and all the other injuries and deaths guns can and do cause. This shit needs to stop. And to the people who are actually responsible gun owners, I truly am sorry but I just can't take this shit anymore. If banning guns is the fastest way to stop this, then we have to do it right fucking now.
"Nobody ever died in the chaos of a confused, panicky crossfire between a dozen startled people!"
I wish I had stopped reading at "sheeple."
Why do you think other countries have significantly less shootings?
1. Gun control
2) is what really has been pissing me off about the US ever since I lived there for a while. Every single issue is turned into "oh no, they're coming for you, defend yourselves, grab your guns" by Fox News and the likes. Health care? Fascism that will kill of the elderly. Tax increases (or more like, not further tax cuts)? Communism incoming, grab you weapon. Female reproductive rights? Baby holocaust, better go attack an abortion clinic. Some Muslim dude wants to rent property? Sharia law is coming to your hood, be ready for war! Limiting your assault rifle's magazine to 15 rounds? Oh no, the government is coming to take your guns so Obama can stay in power forever, better be prepared for a revolution!
This combination of unlimited guns and a culture of making everything a shooting matter is what's really the problem in the USA. ONLY gun control won't fix it, but it's still necesssary.
@Frogflayer
TBF, that's actually the words of Rev. Jim Jones, he of the Jonestown mass suicide. Taken from a tape of one of his sermons, possibly his rant just prior to the event itself.
Nice to see an A3 reference though.
jamies: "There are simply too many crazy people now to watch them all. Taking gun rights from the normal ones isn't the answer. Gun free zones are simply shooting galleries."
Not jamies: "Just to be clear, by 'normal', you mean...?"
jamies (in a 'dafuq?' voice): "People exactly like ME! What else?"
You see, this arguement can also work against you, for if you we had at least slightly stricter requirements for owning a gun, the crazies would not have such an easy time getting one.
I am literally incapable of following these guy's logic. MOAR GUNS in de hands of crazy people = less gun violence? DAFUQ? How can one possibly come to that conclusion!?
FACE IT! You insane gun fetishists are ruining America! You're the cause of the country's abnormally high gun violence! Thousands of people die every day in shootings becaues you guys can't get off without stroking an assault rifle every five minutes in public!! Hundreds of children accidentally kill themselves with a relative's firearm because you people insist on giving every mentally disabled person a loaded gun!!
WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THE WORLD DOESN'T REVOLVE AROUND YOU AND YOUR SELFISH DESIRES!!!?
As the likelihood would be that many more people would die in the crossfire, if such a situation arose in your idealised world, would it mean that this does not matter because their intentions would be for the good?
Anyone who uses the term "sheeple" while trying to make a serious point is not worth listening to or reading.
These gun humpers puzzle me. Collecting guns or keeping one that you inherited from 5 generations ago is one thing, but the constant yammering about how great gunz are leaves me completely speechless. The louder they scream about their gunz, the less they should be allowed to own any.
Ammosexuals are insane.
Yes, because the sure way to not rack up the body count is have everyone being armed.
OK, Sparky, if you're out in a crowded public place, you hear gunshots and turn around to see two people shooting at each other. How do you know which one to shoot? One is the crazed gunman and the other is an armed vigilante citizen. And how do you know that a fourth person with a gun won't think that YOU'RE the crazed gunman when you're standing there with your gun out trying to decide who to shoot at? Now imagine 30 people all with guns out trying to figure out who the crazed gunman is and who are armed citizens trying to stop the crazed gunman.
That's all we need is a bunch of untrained people armed with deadly weapons trying to be a hero. All that happens is a bunch of innocent people get caught in the crossfire.
Instead of trying to win a shootout, why don't we get guns out of the hands of murderous psychotics in the first place? But any time anyone even hints at stronger gun laws, you people go nuts about losing your rights.
Why would you bring a gun to a theater? I know of no actual gun owners who would do this. Theaters are cramped. Not only would even a holstered pistol make you that much more uncomfortable, it's a given that you will intimidate other innocent people by bringing a firearm into a dark, crowded place.
Right, just what we need, a bunch of white trash firing their weapons in a crowded theater with no fucking idea what they're doing.
Hey, wait a minute, that might thin out the herd a bit.
#1837774
They definitely do. Just look at any given social media page after a mass shooting. The FIRST THING these people think is "how can I protect my guns?".
The mere idea that the cure for gun violence is more unregulated guns is as dogmatic and delusional as any fundamentalist Christian belief.
Newsflash: no one is coming to take away your guns. You guys won that fight ages ago.
If they didn't do it a hundred mass shootings ago, they won't do it now. The rest of us get to live with an occasional nutjob going off his rocker with an AR-15 in a crowded shopping mall now and again. Oh well.
As if fucking mobile phones in cinemas were bad enough, guns ?!
At least, post-Dunblane, the most one would expect at a British cinema showing a "Batman" film is a ringtone, amd not an actual gunshot (beyond a sound effect), so I'm afraid even your 'rant' (in the guise of a so-called 'Opinion') is invalid.
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