A 22 year old guy with a concealed carry license

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Vigilante who should have called the Police.

Something else, please explain.

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Shot and killed a potential mass murderer.
Some on the anti gun side are calling him a vigilante.
What do you call him?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/07/17/us/indiana-greenwood-park-mall-shooting/index.html

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BlueVeins · 22-25

Who's calling him a vigilante?

FreeSpirit1 · F

@BlueVeins The President of Brady United, an anti gun lobby and most of their followers on Twitter.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@FreeSpirit1 Yeah, Kris probably shoulda tempered her language more.

FreeSpirit1 · F

@BlueVeins No , honesty is truth, it's what they believe. And it's good knowing what people really believe.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@FreeSpirit1 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. She coulda gotten the point across better if she'd shown situational awareness of how her words could be misconstrued.

FreeSpirit1 · F

@BlueVeins she doesn't think anyone should have a gun. It's clear.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@FreeSpirit1 From Brady United's webpage:

From our beginning in 1974, Brady has been about common-sense gun laws. We work with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to close loopholes in the current gun laws and pass new legislation to save lives and prevent gun violence. That includes expanding Brady Background Checks to all gun sales and banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Today, led by Brady President Kris Brown, we continue our namesake’s legacy of bipartisanship by reaching across the aisles, working with gun owners and non-gun owners alike, to make our country safer for all. Because where you live shouldn’t dictate if you live.

Pretty unambiguously in favor of the concept of people owning guns.

FreeSpirit1 · F

@BlueVeins I know their official position, her true feelings came out with her tweet though, if that speaks for the whole organization is different but it's obvious she wants no one armed except the government.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@FreeSpirit1 not what she said but alright.

She was sayin' our attitude about guns shouldn't just be relying on random people to kill all the criminals; there's a better way of fixing the problem. You're seeing what you want to see because it's convenient to your preconceived notions about the anti-gun lobby. I don't even agree with her, I just find this line of attack to be kind of ridiculous.

FreeSpirit1 · F

@BlueVeins ok

ShadowSister · 51-55, F

@FreeSpirit1 Bad optics, to be sure. She does not represent the views of most of us who would like stricter gun regulation.

SW-User

@BlueVeins someone needs to tell her that 500,000 to 2,000,000 defensive uses of a firearm against an attacker each year in this country that does save the good guy and others lives isn't an NRA MYTH. It's a cold hard fact backed up by actual data from the FBI's uniform crime report they release every year.