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> I've no idea who is mentally prepared or adequately trained to pull out a gun and tackle a mass shooter His name is Elisjsha Dicken. https://www.bbc.com/news
by philwelch 3y ago
> I've no idea who is mentally prepared or adequately trained to pull out a gun and tackle a mass shooter
His name is Elisjsha Dicken. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62217263 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62217263
There are multiple documented instances of armed civilians stopping mass shooters. I think you’d be surprised indeed. See if you can find the footage from the West Freeway Church shooting in Texas a few years back—multiple members of the congregation were carrying and drew their weapons once the shooting started, but none of them reacted as you suggest.
The Uvalde cops were cowards who have no business serving in law enforcement. That’s the long and short of it.
- smcl 3y agoIf your hope is that every cop and/or gun owner magically transforms into this Elisjsha person, then I think you're going to be disappointed.
- philwelch 3y agoYou’re the one posting a video of someone acting like an idiot in a road rage incident and suggesting that’s what the typical gun owner does in a self defense situation. That’s simply not the case. Don’t turn this around and move the goalposts. Dicken was a hero in that incident, but he was also an ordinary civilian exercising his right to carry a concealed weapon in public. Incidentally, the same YouTuber who interviewed that SAS man made a video about Dicken; he explains the point a lot better than I probably can: https://youtu.be/mA7Rb-EX4K4 https://youtu.be/mA7Rb-EX4K4 And when it comes to cops, stop making excuses for the cowards in Uvalde. I am disappointed in them, and I have every right to be.