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apnu

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6. That's total bullshit. In my dojo we work on disarming w/out using guns.

Reply to backtoblue (Original post)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 12:21 PM

Dec 2012

there are several good and effective strategies to accomplish this.

Granted, you can do nothing if someone opens a door and starts blazing away 20 yards away, but there are ways to stop "bad guys with guns" with out a "good guy with a gun"

And besides, don't we already have "good guys with guns"? We call them cops, right?

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"the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" [View all] backtoblue Dec 2012 OP

This guy is INSANE dorkzilla Dec 2012 #1

And it isn't always easy to tell them apart until they start shooting someone gollygee Dec 2012 #2

This "man" is absolutely disgusting and despicable. VespertineIconoclast Dec 2012 #3

he's attacking the prez now. what an opportunistic leach of an excuse for a human backtoblue Dec 2012 #4

Um... what if the bad guy couldn't get a gun? The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2012 #5

hammer hits nail backtoblue Dec 2012 #8

That's total bullshit. In my dojo we work on disarming w/out using guns. apnu Dec 2012 #6

The answer to guns, is more guns. The answer to death, is more death. The sinkingfeeling Dec 2012 #7

The answer to austerity is . . . more austerity. Bunch of fucking fuck-tards coalition_unwilling Dec 2012 #15

What if the "bad guy" had had early childhood intervention with his mental problems? Brickbat Dec 2012 #9

but first, we must have MORE guns. backtoblue Dec 2012 #17

Simpletons say things like that. Rex Dec 2012 #10

"Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible." grahamhgreen Dec 2012 #11

But not said.... Turbineguy Dec 2012 #12

Hear us speak, but we will not respond!!! backtoblue Dec 2012 #13

Let's dispense with hostage negotiations then Pretzel_Warrior Dec 2012 #14

This is why you want the bad guy to have a knife instead. n/t Plaid Adder Dec 2012 #16