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by pbwalker
Sun Jan 09, 2011 4:21 pm
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: Pending Texas Firearms Legislation vs the "Safeway Shooting"
Replies: 48
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Re: Pending Texas Firearms Legislation vs the "Safeway Shoot

Waco Kid wrote:Well, it's just my imagination of the scene, but I figure this guy was standing in a crowd. I have no idea what was going on, but I'd imagine people were ducking and running all over the place. To have a shootout with people running between you and your target - and the people behind and around your target - opens up a can of worms about injuring more innocent people. What if your shot goes through his shoulder and hits someone behind the shooter?

I could just imagine how the anti-guns would spin it. Injuries caused by the "good guy" shooter would be just as bad as injuries by the "bad guy" shooter.
We could imagine and 'what-if' all day long...and your examples prove my point of knowing what is beyond your target. If people are running and scurrying around, that is a 'no-shoot' scenario.

'What if' you use the chaos and confusion to your advantage, drop to one knee (or down on your side), and shoot through the goblins head with a trajectory towards the ceiling? I could imagine doing that...then again, I wasn't there.

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by pbwalker
Sun Jan 09, 2011 3:53 pm
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: Pending Texas Firearms Legislation vs the "Safeway Shooting"
Replies: 48
Views: 8999

Re: Pending Texas Firearms Legislation vs the "Safeway Shoot

Waco Kid wrote:I thought that one of the people who stopped the attack was a concealed license holder - but that he did not fire.

I could only imagine what would have happened if someone started firing back at the shooter... in a crowd. I think that would have been even worse. I'm almost *glad* nobody shot back at him - minimized collateral damage. I do wish it would have been stopped earlier though.
Why do you think it would have been worse? One always has to know what lies beyond their target...if there was an opportunity to take down this scum, why not do it?

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