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Gun Control & RKBA

gejohnston

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8. To answer your question,

Reply to matt819 (Reply #5)

Wed Aug 8, 2018, 02:43 PM

Aug 2018

there are an infinite number of possibilities and outcomes. Some cases directly, some cases, maybe not. With Charles Whitman, a couple of students and a prof happened to have their deer rifles in their cars and were able to provide suppressive fire to allow police to safely advance on the tower.

https://vimeo.com/165401221
https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-westgate-interpol-chief-ponders-armed-citizenry/story?id=20637341

Either way, self defense, and the means to do so, is a fundamental human and natural right. The basic principle of being pro-choice is personal autonomy privacy as protected under the 9A. The same is true with self defense. An attack on one individual right is an attack on all.

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Texas Tech police: campus carry a good thing [View all] gejohnston Aug 2018 OP

Until it isn't (nt) matt819 Aug 2018 #1

given that CCW holders gejohnston Aug 2018 #3

I'm not referring to the carriers matt819 Aug 2018 #5

To answer your question, gejohnston Aug 2018 #8

It's Texas Tech. cloudbase Aug 2018 #2

Are they named after the gejohnston Aug 2018 #4

The school (and the nickname) predates the bomb group. n/t cloudbase Aug 2018 #7

I expect there will be the usual knee-jerk replies sarisataka Aug 2018 #6

Whole lot of drinking and drug-taking at Tech. Paladin Aug 2018 #9