• TheTechnician27
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      2 months ago

      I think you’re pissed at the objective fact that 12/433 is fucking nothing and your “good guy with a gun” argument is a pathetic farce, so you’re trying muddy the waters by shifting the argument to a ridiculous, unfounded, unfalsifiable notion that any of the 42 subduers might’ve had literally anything to do with “good guys” having firearms.

        • TheTechnician27
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          182 months ago

          Yeah, so terrible and confusing that they didn’t mention guns in branches that don’t have anything to do with guns outside of a gun fetishist’s fanfiction.

          • queermunist she/her
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            2 months ago

            So, I can imagine someone with a gun menacing the attacker at gunpoint and forcing them to surrender. No shots fired.

            But the data doesn’t include this for bystanders. Maybe that’s because it doesn’t happen in real life, or maybe they muddied the watters. We can’t know because we can’t see the data they used to make this graphic.

            • @[email protected]
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              32 months ago

              For practical purposes imagine yourself in a public area with the gunman actively shooting people with an AR-15, to the left of you a guys head is turned to mush, down the way someone takes a hit to a limb leaving their arm dangling in an unnatural way. All around you are dead and dying you ignore the pistol in your pocket and run at him screaming “I’m going to take you down brudder”.

              The people who subdued people without shooting them probably didn’t have a gun.

              • queermunist she/her
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                12 months ago

                Not all shooters are blindly suicidal. They can be menaced with a gun and told to surrender. Yeah, in some situations it won’t work, but in some situations it will.

                42 incidents. Not even one of them used a gun to force a surrender? Hard to believe.

                • @[email protected]
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                  22 months ago

                  It’s incredibly easy to believe. Many people own guns most of them don’t go around armed literally all the time. Fewer yet are going to get in a gun fight to the death with a shooter who is actively killing people all around them. Of those willing to do so basically anyone with even half a brain is going to take the shot. By the time you have yelled “drop the” they have enough time to bring the gun to bear on you. It makes more sense to execute you than comply.

                  What you are describing is a movie fantasy.

                  • queermunist she/her
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                    12 months ago

                    42 people choosing to risk their lives while unarmed is also pretty hard to believe.

                    Also, your claim that surrender is a fantasy contradicts the fact that a bunch of shootings ended in surrender to the police. I think that strongly implies a bystander with a gun could achieve a similar result.

        • Lev_Astov
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          Thank you for standing up to the slavering morons around here about bad statistical graphics.

          All I’m getting out of this is that police are, in fact less than 50% effective, so we’d better plan on dealing with it ourselves.