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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TheSirfurryanimalWales · 61-69, M

Of course,if neither of them had guns no one would have been killed.

LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON · F

@TheSirfurryanimalWales anddddddddddddddddd we have a winner!
Yahtzee!
DING DING DING DING

Do you think they 'get it'? 🤔

TheSirfurryanimalWales · 61-69, M

No....Americans don't understand how most of the world can live without guns.@LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON

Ozuye502 · 36-40, M

@TheSirfurryanimalWales yea because if we just got rid of guns edged weapons and blunt force object would just become safer evil will do what evil does. I’d rather have a firearm on my hip than be defenseless sheep.
You can not regulate yourself into safety but you can guard yourself against evil with a firearm and training…
Which just so happens to be the best tool for self defense.

LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON · F

@TheSirfurryanimalWales And we get to the issue at the heart of it all. Australia's guns were banned, they are still breathing right, no one is brain dead or living on Mars or what have you?

I mean, LIFE continued right? ....

You know so much more about this, than I.

Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.
In the wake of the killing in Uvalde, here’s what America can learn from Australia’s response to tragedy.

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback

Ozuye502 · 36-40, M

@LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON however other violent crimes had a major uptick sounding like criminals fear death more than the cops…

MistyCee

@TheSirfurryanimalWales Well, yeah, but the right to carry and bear "shall not be infringed" unlike other rights.

I'm not saying that Thomas was right and that the Founding Fathers made a conscious decision to enshrine individual liberty over everything else, but he set forth a cogent argument as to why the public welfare was prejudged and shouldn't be questioned, making the right to self defense against aggression preeminent.

I get what you're saying, but I also see what Thomas and his ilk are saying, and I think you're only going halfway.

Dead kids and dead innocent bystanders may be unfortunate side effects, but clearly our founding fathers took away the option of weighing those deaths against disarming those willing to live with them, right?

In case you didn't get it, I agree with where you're going, but I don't think you're going to get anywhere appealing half heartedly to the give me liberty or give me death crowd.

They're too tied up in their willingness to die for their own liberty.