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No, it's a great argument because it was a shotgun.
Shotguns with typically non-box-magazine-fed design take longer to reload and have less magazine capacity. Because of this, people with only pepperspray could take down the shotgun user before too many people were injured and killed.
Rifles with box-magazine-fed-designs spend minimal time reloading and tend to accumulate much more injuries and deaths.
Everyone would be happy if all mass-shootings were like this, with 5 injured, maybe only 1 death. The libs are very happy that the shooter was stopped without the victims needing a firearm.
If anything, this shooting is perfect ammunition for the anti-gunners. It's proof that if rifles are banned, crazy people with shotguns can be stopped easy. And it's proof that you do not need a gun to defend yourself against someone with a gun. This story can be used as an example of why semi-auto rifles should be carefully controlled, why magazines should have low capacity limits, and why concealed carry is not necessary... because this is a success story.
Last edited by Koshinn; 06-06-14 at 10:48.
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." Robert A. Heinlein
There is no way that competent anti-gun strategists will go after shotguns.
That's assuming a lot... competent and anti-gun strategist at the same time is a lot to ask for... but if I were one, I'd say that this shows that shotguns do less damage than mass-knife-stabbings. The 2A has always been held that it's ok to allow some types of arms and disallow other types of arms... so I'd say to allow pump action shotguns and bolt action rifles, but ban everything else. This shooting is a perfect reason why.
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." Robert A. Heinlein
According to Facebook the hero with the pepper spray appears to be a gun guy. I saw his page briefly, I think it's down now, and he had a lot of gun "likes".
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/us/seattle-hero-profile
"Carried pepper spray just in case."
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And on a related note of shootings this week - didn't want to start another thread...
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/deput...rthouse/ngFsf/
Forsyth County Sheriff Duane Piper said the shooter, Dennis Marx, walked into Forsyth County Administration Building on East Main Street at about 10:30 a.m. and opened fire. He was armed with an assault rifle, according to authorities. Prior to walking inside, Piper said Marx threw stop sticks on the road so that cars could not approach....
....The gunman's attorney told Channel 2 she was representing him until Thursday, when she withdrew because he was unsatisfied with her negotiating skills. He was due in court on Friday for marijuana and firearms charges. The attorney said the man was a gun buyer and trader.
The attorney said she asked the man to undergo a psychological evaluation, but he refused.
Again, how did he not get picked up BEFORE he started shooting??? Drug possession and firearm charges?? And he's free to keep his guns and do whatever he wants?
Gun buyer and trader eh? May as well of been a full blown terrorist then.
At any rate sounds like someone somewhere dropped the ball, again..
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