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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
You have a right to your own life. You are more than collateral damage to promote some advocacy group’s greater good.
In a perfect world we wouldn’t need a law-abiding citizen carrying a firearm to stop a mass shooter in a mall. We don’t live in a perfect world. The shoppers at the Greenwald Mall needed a gunfighter, and they got what they needed.
“The real hero of the day is the citizen that was lawfully carrying a firearm in that food court and was able to stop the shooter almost as soon as he began,” Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison told reporters.
Here's what we're not going to do: continue to uplift the NRA myth of a "good guy with a gun."
Let me be clear: If more guns made us safer, America would be the safest country in the WORLD.
We need sensible gun laws, not vigilante safety nets. #GreenwoodMall #GunReformNow
— Kris Brown | President, bradyunited.org (@KrisB_Brown) July 18, 2022
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Let me put it this way. When a guy uses “irony” (or more correctly, sarcasm) and uses nice and acceptable words intended to “portray” the opposite as insults and personal ad hominem attacks — in order to circumvent the CoC — why should I automatically believe anything nice and acceptable that he says?
And he voted for a gun grabber. Given his admitted method of saying the opposite of what he actually means, I don’t believe that he in any way is glad that we had “the good guy with a gun” but is being “ironic” again.
Really? So if you vote for someone you support their position on every issue? How can you ever in good conscious cast a vote for anyone? By your standards every single one of us who has ever voted is a hypocrite, unless we were a candidate and voted for ourselves.
Where you cannot carry in Indiana:
They don’t think, they just “feel.”
Edited and redacted to: I don’t believe him anymore.
As I understood it, as of July 1 of this year a permit was no longer required to carry. As far as “no gun zones” go, if you were carrying, they could request you to leave, and if you refused, they could call a cop and trespass you.
I believe, from the news, perhaps the news conference, that in the past few weeks “Constitutional carry” was instituted. Regardless, the Chief of Police says that Dicken was legally carrying.
And if I recall correctly, the Chief’s statement was in response to a question about the legality of carrying in light the Mall’s policy prohibiting guns.
He knows I don’t . . .
Indiana became a Constitutional Carry State on July 1, 2022:
Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) of Indiana signed HB 1296 on March 21. The new law will go into effect on July 1, 2022.
That is the most ridiculous twisting of logic I have ever heard. lol
Our intent is never determinative of how someone else interprets things.
Nor is guessing very successful.
I have always thought there was something fishy about @stad. Sure, he has written written thousands of comments criticizing Democrats, but he hit the Like button on a pro-gun comment made by someone who voted for Biden, so can we really trust him? I have seen photographic evidence that Stad had long hair in high school. When we were together at the Black Hills Ricochet Meetup, Stad never bought a t-shirt depicting Donald Trump as a bad-ass biker, even though Stad loves t-shirts and those Trump as hooligan t-shirts were all over the place. I think we have sniffed out a heretic.
There’s a difference between liking a comment you think is good or correct, and liking a person’s voting record . . .
Technically yes, but if the person believes that we got here because of his voting record, “liking” the comment can be seen as “liking” what they think was the path to it.
I think most Ricochet members use the Like button the way Stad and I do, meaning it is a statement of approval of that comment and that comment alone. I doubt there is anyone on this whole site who when they receive a Like, assumes that it is an endorsement of every position they have ever held. I know I have hit the Like button on comments written by people who holds views very different than many on other topics. I’ve even hit the Like button for the ass who opined that people with my economic views deserve execution. Just not on that thread.
I dunno, maybe. But have you met Gary?