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  • My point is: Somebody recently brought out statistics about how many active shooter situations were defused because somebody had a gun. I wonder how many situations were unjustifiably escalated because somebody wanted to be the good guy with the gun.
    "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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    • Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
      My point is: Somebody recently brought out statistics about how many active shooter situations were defused because somebody had a gun. I wonder how many situations were unjustifiably escalated because somebody wanted to be the good guy with the gun.
      I suspect the latter would get more publicity than the former, as the current atmosphere is largely anti-gun, but I don't know that.
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
        I suspect the latter would get more publicity than the former, as the current atmosphere is largely anti-gun, but I don't know that.
        Well, we have numbers on the former, so a comparison should be possible I'd think...
        "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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        • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
          I suspect the latter would get more publicity than the former, as the current atmosphere is largely anti-gun, but I don't know that.
          No - you don't. And it sounds suspiciously like self-confirming bias... but I don't know that...
          The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

          I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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          • Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
            No - you don't. And it sounds suspiciously like self-confirming bias... but I don't know that...
            Yeah, that's entirely possible, but I do, and, you're right, I don't.
            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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            • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
              Yeah, that's entirely possible, but I do, and, you're right, I don't.
              I actually did... until you posted...
              The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

              I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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              • I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate that the guy in this case never took a gun safety course.
                "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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