[quote]Amiright wrote:
Thats totally fucked up… luckily that guy sucks at shooting… as messed up as it is… how the hell do you miss from 10 feet?!? Thankfully those people are ok… [/quote]
Well, the “Stormtrooper Effect” as it’s known, where in movies bad guys are unable to hit the broad side of a barn, much less a hero, is actually based on a real life phenomena where 80-90% of troops in a war situation won’t even be firing AT an enemy, but firing intentionally over them or to the side of them.
It’s entirely possible this guy just didn’t have it in him to actually kill anyone and intentionally missed.
Does a significant portion of the US civilian population walk around strapped?[/quote]
Depends on the state you’re in. Illinois (where I live) is the only state without any form of pistol carry allowed. Wisconsin has no concealed carry, though they have open carry.
Texas has the loosest gun laws and most guns per capita but (pretty sure about this) has one of the lowest gun crime rates in the U.S.[/quote]
In Alaska you can walk into a store and walk out with a handgun. They run a background check while you are there just to make sure you don’t have felonies or something. This is according to my buddy who is going out there to live with his brother.
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Have you ever heard of the gun show loophole?
Sale of guns at gun shows is pretty much unsupervised and done without checks of any kind. In the documentary “bowling for columbine” they send a guy in with a lot of money just to see how many guns he can by. He was only asked for i.d. once, and he asked the guy if he could just pay an extra hundred dollars and the guy agreed. He ended up with a ridiculous amount of guns (like 10+ high powered rifles and shotguns and a whole bunch of handguns).
[quote]Blaze_108 wrote:
Texas has the loosest gun laws[/quote]
Hmm…I don’t know about that one. I would think Vermont…or Alaska. BUT I would say we are probably best state live in if you every have to justifiably use deadly force.
I recently wrote an exam in the US and on one of the forms it listed a concealed weapon as one of the items not allowed in the exam room. I remember thinking “WTF? Why would they need to put that on this form?”
I might kill myself too if I was a fat piece of shit. I’m assuming his wife is also fat, ugly, and probably stupid which is why she got fired in the first place.
[quote]dnlcdstn wrote:
I’m assuming his wife is also fat, ugly, and probably stupid which is why she got fired in the first place.[/quote]
Well…lets not be so quick to throw the Mrs.Moron under the bus. Not to justify this act(obviously)…but IF my wife was fired for any reason based solely on her looks,build,etc…I would be fucking pissed as well. Just sayin.
Does this justify the right to a weapon where there are checks and balances, but pretty relaxed laws like in Texas. Or does this help out the anti-gun proponents who believe Americans have no rights to weapons. For the record I am pro-guns.
Also that lady has some balls of steel. I applaud her and the audio sounds extremely out of a movie, I could not imagine being in that room.
I carry some of the time, there is always one in my truck, if someone else in the room had a gun they could have shown this guy how to shoot and put him down.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
I recently wrote an exam in the US and on one of the forms it listed a concealed weapon as one of the items not allowed in the exam room. I remember thinking “WTF? Why would they need to put that on this form?”
I now understand.[/quote]
Um… the guy was an ex-con. It WAS illegal for him to have the gun. Fat lot of good that did.
[quote]jre67t wrote:
Does this justify the right to a weapon where there are checks and balances, but pretty relaxed laws like in Texas. Or does this help out the anti-gun proponents who believe Americans have no rights to weapons. For the record I am pro-guns.
Also that lady has some balls of steel. I applaud her and the audio sounds extremely out of a movie, I could not imagine being in that room. [/quote]
Uh, it was already illegal for that guy to have the gun…
[quote]therajraj wrote:
I recently wrote an exam in the US and on one of the forms it listed a concealed weapon as one of the items not allowed in the exam room. I remember thinking “WTF? Why would they need to put that on this form?”
I now understand.[/quote]
Um… the guy was an ex-con. It WAS illegal for him to have the gun. Fat lot of good that did.[/quote]
I was referring to the gun carrying laws posted just above, not the OP
[quote]jre67t wrote:
DD Im not asking if it was for him, Im asking what if one of the 6 men had a weapon, of course once a felon, life kinda of sucks.
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My post was regarding if it helped the anti-gun people question in your post.
If everyone else in the room had a gun on them it would have been a Polish firing squad and I’d imagine there would have been quite a few more ambulances needed. . .