Run, you fucking piece of shit. Go go go gogogogogogog!

My niece told her grandmother about her fear of getting murdered at school. Feel that fear, asshole.

  • EatATaco@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    9 months ago

    This strikes me as like implying that I’m hypocritical because I support gay marriage, but then turned down a man who hits on me because im not actually gay.

    A person can be pro gun rights and at the same time still be afraid of an active shooter.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      9 months ago

      I’m hypocritical because I support gay marriage, but then turned down a man who hits on me because im not actually gay.

      It would be ironic to loudly and repeatedly declare “If you don’t want to get hit on at a bar, put on that wedding ring” and then get chased out of a bar by a bunch of married men slapping your ass.

      A person can be pro gun rights and at the same time still be afraid of an active shooter.

      A person who stakes their reputation on the phrase “An Armed Society Is A Polite Society” fleeing said armed society for their lack of politeness establishes a certain hypocrisy.

      • ErrorF002@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        9 months ago

        A person fleeing that situation who may well be unarmed is self-preservation, not hypocrisy, regardless of their stance on guns. He is however reaping what he has helped sow. Hypocrisy is simply the wrong word. This isn’t the same as being anti-abortion and then paying for your mistress to get one. Being pro-gun doesn’t mean you just stand there.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          9 months ago

          A person fleeing that situation who may well be unarmed is self-preservation, not hypocrisy

          A person who insists everyone should be armed everywhere they go and then isn’t armed when he asserts a gun would have been handy is ironic.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        9 months ago

        A person who stakes their reputation on the phrase “An Armed Society Is A Polite Society” fleeing said armed society for their lack of politeness establishes a certain hypocrisy.

        Of course not.

        A handgun compares to a rifle like a dagger to a sword.

          • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            9 months ago

            What did you not understand? A pistol is a gun, a rifle is a gun, a Soviet D-20 howitzer is a gun.

            You can’t be that stupid to call somebody a hypocrite for supporting carry of weapons for self-defense because they ran from a mass shooter with a rifle. People usually don’t carry rifles for self-defense.

  • Shenanigore@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    9 months ago

    This isn’t a “gotcha”. I’m a big fan of classic cars but that doesn’t mean I’ll stand there when one is driving fast straight at me.

    • goetzit@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      9 months ago

      I mean most pro-gun arguments boil down to “guns are needed because the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with one”, so when a large proponent of this argument is thrown into a situation where he could be the “good guy with a gun” and he instead runs away because he values his own life more than protecting the lives of those around him, maybe he should stop and dwell on that thought for a minute.

      Would I charge headfirst into gunfire? Absolutely not, and thats why I advocate for more gun control.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    9 months ago

    If Guns are so Safe why were people running AWAY from the Gun? Wouldn’t the Gunman be the Safest person there?

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      9 months ago

      They never are. And by “they,” I mean everyone who carries a gun for “protection,” and by “never,” I mean that the good guy with a gun almost never actually stops shootings.

      Just look at the numbers of justifiable homicides vs the number of murders by guns in the US. The justifiable homicides are almost statistically insignificant in comparison.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          9 months ago

          The person you are most likely to use a gun on is yourself.

          The second most likely person you are to use a gun on is your spouse, with men overwhelmingly preferring firearms as a form of spousal homicide.

          The third most likely person you are to use a gun on is a family/tenant.

          Home invaders are way down on the list of “at-home gun use” targets. And, to make things even more stick, police tend to be more concerned with facing an armed resident than actual burglars. This leads to a high rate of police homicides ruled justifiable, on the grounds that the officer entering the home believed that the resident possessed a gun.

          So, we’re looking at a solid four different likely ways keeping a gun in your home will result in the death of you or another lawful resident of your house.

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    9 months ago

    Everyone should run scared for their life from a mass shooting. It’s a mass shooting.

    Everyone should also do what they can to minimize gun deaths in this country, obviously this guy isn’t doing that, but that is unrelated to how he should act during a mass shooting.