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Lee-Lee

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1. So one extreme example means it's the standard for everything?

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Mon Oct 2, 2017, 02:55 PM

Oct 2017

Is that how we roll now?

That's as big a fail of logic as the right wingers finding a few examples of people who didn't get proper medical care in places with universal health care and screaming because of those few examples all universal health care is bad and will never work.

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This incident pretty much kills the "Good guys with guns"/"Gun free zones are bad" myth. [View all] Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 OP

So one extreme example means it's the standard for everything? Lee-Lee Oct 2017 #1

After every mass shooting we're inundated with "good guy" fantasies.... Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 #5

It never happens? Lee-Lee Oct 2017 #10

how many more extreme examples do we have to endure? NRaleighLiberal Oct 2017 #7

James Holmes was just another extreme example too, right? gratuitous Oct 2017 #8

There are NEVER any good guys with guns to save the day HAB911 Oct 2017 #2

and if they didn't Skittles Oct 2017 #3

Yes and that day is coming HAB911 Oct 2017 #4

Its "proven" huh Lee-Lee Oct 2017 #11

I stand corrected, should be "rarely" HAB911 Oct 2017 #12

New FBI Report Casts Doubt on NRAs Good Guy Stops Bad Guy Nonsense Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 #15

yup gopiscrap Oct 2017 #6

Not to mention the incredible burden you put on law enforcement... trotsky Oct 2017 #9

But what if we allowed people to carry bazookas? brooklynite Oct 2017 #13

The festival banned all weapons including guns hack89 Oct 2017 #14