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Related: About this forumJust after Sandy Hook...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/armed-civilians-do-not-stop-mass-shootings...this article appeared. I can't help ask if a potential mass shooting was stopped by someone concealed carrying, how would they know? None of the mass shootings were halted prior to qualifying as a mass shooting by anyone. Isn't that like not being able to autopsy someone that didn't die?
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Just after Sandy Hook... (Original Post)
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Feb 2016
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MJ's "logic" is akin to the shark repellant perfected in the Mojave Desert...
Eleanors38
Feb 2016
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Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)1. MJ's "logic" is akin to the shark repellant perfected in the Mojave Desert...
.... Wait a minute! There are no sharks in a desert!
(See?)
krispos42
(49,445 posts)2. I have a stegasaurus repellor in my front yard.
Works great, too.
I guess the standard is that, during a mass shooting when the body count is already high enough to quality as a mass shooting, concealed-carriers don't THEN stop the killer.
Every time a CCW permitee uses a gun in self-defense, a mass shooting may have been stopped.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,603 posts)3. See you've got the idea!
Ever see an elephant hiding a cherry tree?
See how well they hide!