• 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    12 of them is stop by good guy with gun and 42 of them is stop by good guy with massive balls.

    No. There is nothing to imply that the 42 people didn’t have a gun, just that they didn’t shoot the attacker. That part seems fishy.

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      Oh yeah, I’m sure any of these cases were someone stopping to hold an active shooter at gunpoint and that somehow working out for them. Or maybe they used their gun as a melee weapon. Or maybe the attackers were subdued by being talked down over their common love of guns. Or maybe the active shooter ran out of ammo and came up to the good guy with a gun to get some more, at which point the good guy revealed they were actually tricking them into lowering their guard and put them into a headlock. Or maybe some other far-fetched bullshit that’ll let me equivocate over the fact that “good guys with guns” don’t do shit in the grand scheme of things.

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        Jeez, that’s a lot of words you needed to make a clown out of yourself, just because you are pissed by objective fact.

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          I think you’re pissed at the objective fact that 12/433 is fucking nothing and your “good guy with a gun” argument is a pathetic farce, so you’re trying muddy the waters by shifting the argument to a ridiculous, unfounded, unfalsifiable notion that any of the 42 subduers might’ve had literally anything to do with “good guys” having firearms.

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            I think you’re pissed at the objective fact that 12/433 is fucking nothing and your “good guy with a gun” argument

            There is nothing in what I said that would imply what side of “good guy with a gun” argument I am on and there is nothing in the data that says anything about whether the 42 people had a gun.

            My point is this is terrible and confusing representation of the data, as is often the case in any “data is beautiful” community.

            But keep kicking around mad that the version that supports your narrative is not the only possible one :D

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              Yeah, so terrible and confusing that they didn’t mention guns in branches that don’t have anything to do with guns outside of a gun fetishist’s fanfiction.

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                So, I can imagine someone with a gun menacing the attacker at gunpoint and forcing them to surrender. No shots fired.

                But the data doesn’t include this for bystanders. Maybe that’s because it doesn’t happen in real life, or maybe they muddied the watters. We can’t know because we can’t see the data they used to make this graphic.

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                branches that don’t have anything to do with guns

                Branch that doesn’t involve shooting the attacker.

                Keep trying. You will not get there, but at least you tried.

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      11 days ago

      They could have also talked them out of it, which still takes balls

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      True, they didn’t specify whether in that 42 cases the citizen does have a gun but did not fire, just aiming and intimidate. However the data did split between shot fired shot at the attacker(no mention hit or miss) vs subdued, not killed vs subdued, and also there’s a mention of the attacker surrender, so i assume “subdued” mean the attacker did not surrender but forced to give up whatever they’re doing.