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Gun Control & RKBA

Nuclear Unicorn

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6. An active response is the only way to end an active threat.

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Tue Aug 25, 2015, 07:30 AM

Aug 2015

That they were close enough to grab him is fortune rather than a refutation of the principle that good people must act. Had they decided to run and hide like the crew of the train -- or if they had been too far away to tackle him -- we would still be counting the bodies because gun control kept all the potential victims disarmed but did nothing to stop the gunman.

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Fox Host Connects Thwarted Attack On Train To Completely Unrelated "Very Strict" French Gun Laws [View all] SecularMotion Aug 2015 OP

Yes those strict gun laws Duckhunter935 Aug 2015 #1

Media Matters, just stupid, selectively blind, or just hypocritical? DonP Aug 2015 #2

The third choice is correct sarisataka Aug 2015 #4

And people harp on the reliability of the AK over the AR. ileus Aug 2015 #3

Google dump-and-run #3,821 NT pablo_marmol Aug 2015 #5

An active response is the only way to end an active threat. Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #6

those passengers were some of the luckiest people on earth the band leader Aug 2015 #7

Media matters still using armed bodyguards?. Trashing. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #8