It appears that the guy with the gun was a gendarme, which is why he had the gun in the first place. And he was in their neighborhood as part of his job, not some guy who had randomly been set upon by punks. If you sift through the comments (most of them just stupid and ignorant), this shows up several times.
Ah, real video, situation different than presented.
Still, it’s amazing the manners they develop once they see the guy is armed.
I can see it already, the NRA barrel-stroking lunatics circling the wagons on this one. Man’s got rights. Man has every right to shoot as he sees fit, when he sees fit.
Good Samaritan shot dead helping driver whose car slid off the road.
Yup. Just another fine good 'ole Mrrikken, using his God-given 2nd Amendment Rights to be a one-man militia.
Piece of shit white trash fucking bastard. Bet it made you feel like a Real Man to blow away people trying help your useless scum ass out.
Burn in Hell pal. Burn in Hell.
I carry 8-12 road flares in my trunk at all times. Know why? Because in my training a an E.M.T. I learned just how dangerous it can be to pull over to help someone else out- because traffic approaching from behind cannot react safely and quickly to one or two flares set out on the side of the road. When I come upon an accident or broken down car that’s even close to the line, I create the properly distanced diagonal flare line to divert traffic into the middle lane.
Stories like this one make me want to throw out the flares and force myself to drive past any MVA or broken down vehicle. The desire to help out someone in need it easily surpassed by my desire not to have my brains blown out by some gun-toting Mrrikken.
FUCKING USELESS DICKHEAD ASSHOLE WASTE OF SPACE
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It’s their own damn fault, for not carrying guns of their own. If they had guns their could defend themselves, and the bad guys get what’s coming to them. We know they are the bad guys, because whenever there are two guys with guns, the bad guy dies and the good guy lives.
But what about white on white crime?
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Brave hero Dane Gallion, afraid of mass shootings, takes it upon himself to protect the rest of us by bringing a gun to a movie theater, and accidentally shoots a stranger.
and today we have a shootout at a gun shop -
Gun shop owner, son killed over $25 firearm repair fee, sheriff says
Beware Snowmageddon in New Jersey. If only Christie was there in his diap- err - loincloth…
A snow storm seems to bring out the worst in people:
Just in case there is any doubt about the purpose of guns, here is a review of new ammunition for shotguns:
To be fair, that passage addresses the purpose not of the guns but of this specific round – the review says, other rounds are great for big game but are too much for “hominids” (OK yes, sure, an angry chimpanzee you’d want to kill fast 
, right…)
Limited-penetration ammo has been around for some time. Hollow point ammo is used by LE partly for reduced risk of over penetration and ricochet. Do you object to the use of ammo that reduces risk to bystanders?
Of course not. I just thought it was refreshing to see a moment of rare candor from gun enthusiasts about what they use their weapons for.
I don’t see what’s stupid about that either. I’d rather they were honest and sensible about this sort of thing - if you have the weapon for self-defense, you should have appropriate ammo. No use using elephant shot to kill a burglar, especially when you may end up also killing people in the next house at the same time.
This Washington Post Wonkblog entry may well have already been posted (it’s from October) but it confirms a suspicion: CCW permit holders are much more likely to commit a mass shooting than stop one, despite the fond hopes of wishful thinkers.
This speaks more to the rarity of having a mass shooting and an armed bystander coincide than anything else.
I’ve changed the color of an interesting word choice. AFAIK humans are the only extant hominids, but the writer here felt a need to dehumanize one type of “dangerous game.” :rolleyes:
Or even accidental ones. I heard that this guy brought his gun to the theater because he was paranoid that there might be a shooting. Well, yeah, there was. The woman was hit in the shoulder and did not realize she had been shot until later.
Of course, the accidental shooter was drunk. Perhaps that is acceptable, but it kind of irks me. The “F” in ATF needs to go to a different agency so that booze and guns are not seen as belonging together.
IANAL, but I’ve never heard of intoxication being a valid legal defense.