Good guy with a gun? Is this all they've got?

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Friday June 17, 2016 · 4:03 PM PDT

2016/06/17 · 16:03

A relative posted this video on her FB. I didn't want to respond to it there, because 1) I don't think I'd change her mind, 2) I'm assuming most of her friends have similar ideas, and I don't want to be involved in someone else's range war.

https://www.facebook.com/dan.houston.18/videos/719546098076742/

Title is "How to stop a massacre". But notice that the two "bad guys" haven't fired a shot. I assume they were using their guns to intimidate. For all I know they're toy guns.
They're total amateurs. The first one leaves the room and the second turns his back on half the room. That's when the "senior citizen" decides to become a hero.

Patrons are not running away or getting on the floor. They're just milling around. Was this a staged event? Regardless...

The "senior citizen" unloads his gun at the BACKS of the two "bad guys". Hardly sporting. And apparently misses every single time.

Finally, this was July 2012. Four years ago. Over 300 people get shot every day and over 90 die. The "good guy with a gun" crowd had to go back 1400 days, almost 130,000 gun homicides, to find this weak incident in which nobody was even badly hurt and the “bad guys” didn’t use their guns? (Except for the potential of two shot in the back, if Senior Citizen had been a better shot... Or a worse shot.)
Oh, and browse below the video to see people praising him as a patriot and saying he should have killed them both, and more. So, it’s apparently not about defense — it’s about an opportunity to play cowboy.

Let's give this the hearing it deserves.

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Wednesday November 18, 2015 · 2:34 PM PST

2015/11/18 · 14:34

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“Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind - unanimous. It's one of the miracles of Man's disorganized soul that they can do it, and in most instances, do it right well.”

There’s A Proper Scandal to be uncovered by People Like Us. We need to examine the Anatomy of a Murder, for that’s what it was: this Voyage of the Damned in which Very Mean Men scoffed at Law and Order, told our brave diplomats “Run for Your Life!” as our High Velocity fighters sat useless while They All Laughed with Hysterical Blindness. The Young Doctors could do nothing for their injuries. Why, this Shadow Conspiracy may go all the way to the Illuminata.
When are we going to face the truth about Ben Gazzara?

"Representative" government in NM

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Tuesday January 07, 2014 · 3:49 PM PST

2014/01/07 · 15:49

Rep. Pearce (R-NM) replies to a desperate person; says it's wonderful that she has the right to write him.

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