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Showing Original Post only (View all)Well, at least there wasn't some fool with a concealed carry permit that started shooting back [View all]
In this state, West Virginia, if there were 200 people in a movie theater you could pretty safely bet that half a dozen of them had a concealed carry permit and half of those would have been carrying. Can you imagine the carnage if some fool had started shooting back, in the dark and smoke and chaos? There would be twice as many dead and the NRA would be proclaiming a new national hero.
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1-Old-Man
Jul 2012
OP
Actually, Old Man is most likely correct. No one would know who the bad guy was if
FarLeftFist
Jul 2012
#31
Plain-clothes or off-duty cops have been killed by other cops arriving on scene before.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jul 2012
#41
You are correct. And if officers arrived in the middle of it, they wouldn't know who the bad guy was
phleshdef
Jul 2012
#13
It seems to me that the shooter had this all figured out. He figured that there would be
CTyankee
Jul 2012
#36
I always like to tell the story at the Gabby Giffords shooting. There was someone who came
jillan
Jul 2012
#18