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renate

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5. I'm glad he wasn't so fixated on being a hero that he tried to shoot the guy anyway

Reply to Yavapai (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 04:31 PM

Dec 2012

Thank goodness he was smart enough not to fire once he saw the other person (and thank goodness he saw the person... what if he hadn't, and had hit them?).

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Clackamas man, armed, confronts mall shooter [View all] Yavapai Dec 2012 OP

i don't get how hiding behind a pillar = 'confronting' NMDemDist2 Dec 2012 #1

Shhhhh! Politicalboi Dec 2012 #7

yeah, shame of me for NMDemDist2 Dec 2012 #11

maybe because he felt like Secret Agent MAN.... rsmith6621 Dec 2012 #9

.... NMDemDist2 Dec 2012 #13

or like T.J. HOOKER rsmith6621 Dec 2012 #16

Armed Clackamas man hides behind pillar during mall gun rampage, kills nobody. RomneyLies Dec 2012 #2

Another post from "Firearms Fantasy Island" Kolesar Dec 2012 #3

Dear Gun and Rifle, RomneyLies Dec 2012 #19

Can we move this gun tripe to the proper forum? Happyhippychick Dec 2012 #4

I think it is in the proper forum. Yavapai Dec 2012 #14

Do you get paid by the post or number of words? XRubicon Dec 2012 #21

I'm glad he wasn't so fixated on being a hero that he tried to shoot the guy anyway renate Dec 2012 #5

My thoughts exactly! n/t arthritisR_US Dec 2012 #12

And what if someone on the other side of his shooting also had a "concealed gun"... cascadiance Dec 2012 #15

"what if he hadn't, and had hit them?" That is reality. n/t Bonhomme Richard Dec 2012 #17

he would have opened himself up to warrior1 Dec 2012 #6

What a hero. Chorophyll Dec 2012 #8

Thanks for posting this in GD... I'd posted in LBN earlier where it got locked... cascadiance Dec 2012 #10

Macho hero fail. He did NOT confront him - he went and hid. kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #18

Brave Sir Robin ran away. RomneyLies Dec 2012 #20