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Showing Original Post only (View all)I am so tired of this "good guy with a gun" bullshit. The Dayton shooter was dead 30 seconds after [View all]
he fired the first shot and he still was able to kill 9 people and injure 17 more. Is that the best case scenario now?
"With a weapon in his backpack, Betts walked toward an alley and began firing into Blind Bob's at 1:04 a.m., authorities said. Based on a timeline pieced together from security cameras, police engaged with him after less than 20 seconds and Betts was killed 32 seconds after his first shot."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/13/us/dayton-mass-shooting/index.html
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I am so tired of this "good guy with a gun" bullshit. The Dayton shooter was dead 30 seconds after [View all]
PaulRevere08
Aug 2019
OP
The right does not want to understand that, they think the world is a 50s Western or
Thomas Hurt
Aug 2019
#2
I would just like to know who the concealed-carriers were so they could be interviewed...
ret5hd
Aug 2019
#14
You can have every person in a public place armed, but unless their weapon is out and aimed
Vinca
Aug 2019
#17
Exactly my point. The police responded in 20 seconds and still 9 people were killed.
PaulRevere08
Aug 2019
#20