A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his wife, according to reports.
A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his wife, according to reports.
Okay this comment is actually stupid.
Saying this is a legal gun owner moment is as stupid as saying it’s an Antifa moment when someone tries to loot a store during a protest or counter protest.
He was a legal gun owner who used his legal gun to try and execute his wife – something that seldom happens in countries that don’t hand guns out like candy.
On the other hand looting goes hand-in-hand with protests and riots. You always have opportunists finding unsupervised shops. Besides, during those situations they are probably right that nobody cares about the supermarket chain’s losses when human lives lose a significant part of their value.
So yes, anybody would equate gun ownership with increased risk of homicide/suicide and protests with looting. The false equivalency here is looting is exclusive to Antifa.
Not even kind of close. Legal gun owners can be responsible and law abiding citizens, but you know the ones everyone hears about are not that kind of person. Why don’t the good and wholesome law abiding gun owners root these people out? Is it because a significant segment of that population shouldn’t own guns, even if they say THEY aren’t the problem?
To put it simply… If you had a Gatling gun on your vehicle, would you have used it by now? Most of us would admittedly say yes. Most of us, given unfettered access and anonymity, would have at least thought about doing something really stupid and illegal if everyone had Gatling guns mounted on their vehicles.
Most of us would have killed someone if the likelihood of being caught was minimal… Which is why unfettered and semi anonymous access to firearms is an awful idea
While I agree with the sentiment, I wouldn’t have killed anybody.
Good people find the idea of ending someone’s life innately abhorrent and will hesitate to do it even if their lives are in danger.
It’s why militaries (arguably) make sure to train it out of people and why abused women and targeted minorities aren’t actually levelling the playing field by carrying a gun with them everywhere.
That said, what you’re describing is one of the major issues with permissive gun laws – it only takes a split second to kill someone (or yourself) with a loaded handgun in arms reach.