THE Gun Thread

[arewethereyet]

Jesus fuck.

If he had a gun with him, why would he borrow one?

I am over this shit.  Something has to change.  And if it means that fewer people get to have guns, so be it.

How many little kids have to worry about dying by getting shot at school do we really need?  Like they aren't going to grow up fucked up after watching their friends and teacher killed while the police stand by waiting for a key?

I'm so done.  For one of the few times I agree with 37 - you are a gun worshipper.  Everyone else is collateral damage.

I explained why he would borrow a gun.

I carry a little bitty pistol chambered in .380. It is for close range - 20 feet. For the most part it is sufficient for any scenario I expect to encounter. That does not include taking on a maniac with a rifle. It would be better than nothing - but I would prefer to stack the deck more in my favor.

I expect the agent borrowed a shotgun because either 1. He had no gun.
Or
2. He felt the gun he had was insufficient for the task at hand.

Knowing many off duty LEOs carry light handguns - 38 special or smaller - I would bet on #2.

I do not worship guns.

I am simply realistic. Nobody is going to wave a magic wand and make all the bad guns disappear.

Blame the Chinese.


They invented gunpowder.....

Unstack that deck.

Off-duty agent responded to school shooting: "I asked my barber if he had a gun" (msn.com)


"I asked my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, told CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the school earlier that morning and was off duty, with his weapon at home.