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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA very simple debunk for the "Good-guy-with-a-gun"-myth:
Hi.
I'm a good guy.
This is my gun.
I'm a good guy with a gun.
Bang, you are dead.
Now I'm a bad guy with a gun.
How come no good guy with a gun showed up to stop me?
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A very simple debunk for the "Good-guy-with-a-gun"-myth: (Original Post)
DetlefK
Jun 2022
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PJMcK
(22,037 posts)1. It's easier
Uvalde.
That is all.
hunter
(38,317 posts)2. The more common story is:
I'm a good guy. This is my gun.
Bang. Now good guy is dead.
lame54
(35,294 posts)3. Because they were busy tasering good guys without guns
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)4. or...
good guy with a gun.
Bad guy shows up with a gun
Bad guy starts killing people
Cops show up, can't tell bad guy from good guy
Good guy dies in a hail of bullets.
or...
good guy with a gun.
Bad guy shows with a gun
Bad guy starts killing people
Good guy with gun dives for cover as he soils himself.
Frasier Balzov
(2,655 posts)5. Truth.