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“Good Guys with Guns” 2

Der Speigel comments on American’s gun fetish (really, you know, that is the correct word). Here’s a snippet:

There’s something else the NRA likes to say: “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” This motto was put to use on Sunday night in the heart of Manhattan, just two blocks from Times Square. Two New York City cops shot wildly at a confused — and unarmed — man. Instead they hit two passers-by.

On the same night, a young policeman in North Carolina fired 10 bullets into the body of a 24-year-old. The young black man was running up to the policeman after surviving an automobile accident — he was looking for help.

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2 comments

  1. George Smith

    September 18, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    We could also mention that the crazy man stomped his way into a place where many people are armed and trained well in their use and still it took inter-agency joint SWAT forces to take him out. Perhaps the NRA could spin up a new program to train soldiers on bases on the use of guns in self-defense, as well as recommending they be given out to janitors, secretaries and whatever civilian workers there may be. Gun bloodbaths will continue until morale improves. 

     
  2. Frank

    September 18, 2013 at 2:44 pm

    “Perhaps the NRA could spin up a new program to train soldiers on bases on the use of guns in self-defense, as well as recommending they be given out to janitors, secretaries and whatever civilian workers there may be.”

     

    Methinks thou foretelleth the future.

     
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