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Liberal In Texas

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8. There could be some "good guy with a guy" every 20 feet and the perp is going to have the

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #3)

Sun May 7, 2023, 05:52 PM

May 2023

element of surprise and kill an awful lot of people before he's taken out. Just like this incident.

You can't do anything about the element of suprise.

The human killing machines have to be taken out of the hands of civilians.

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So where were the good guys with guns in Allen? [View all] jmowreader May 2023 OP

waiting for the killer to run out of bullets GreenWave May 2023 #1

The Uvalde protocol central scrutinizer May 2023 #10

The LEO who happened to be there on another call was the good guy with a gun. milestogo May 2023 #2

And thank goodness this cop wasn't a coward hamsterjill May 2023 #5

The one cop with a gun killed the guy, and good for him, but Ocelot II May 2023 #3

There could be some "good guy with a guy" every 20 feet and the perp is going to have the Liberal In Texas May 2023 #8

Exactly. The good guy with a gun is pretty useless unless the bad guy doesn't have a gun. Ocelot II May 2023 #9

Was the cop armed with a pistol? Shermann May 2023 #11

I would assume so, since AFAIK he was just there and not looking for a perp. Ocelot II May 2023 #12

I suppose you would know. It says he was in the army at one time. So he would have had some training brewens May 2023 #4

Assault Weapons NowISeetheLight May 2023 #6

My training is to retreat and only use a gun as a last resort Kaleva May 2023 #7

Guns are not allowed at that mall. former9thward May 2023 #13

It is my experience that gun owners can't read signs jmowreader May 2023 #14

The OP asked where the "good guys with a gun" were. former9thward May 2023 #17

..... MarineCombatEngineer May 2023 #19

Where they always are HAB911 May 2023 #15

One stopped it quite by accident malaise May 2023 #16

It's EXTREMELY dangerous to be a good guy with a gun confronting a bad guy. WarGamer May 2023 #18