• Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    2 months ago

    So in short, in the 433 cases, 12 of them is stop by good guy with gun and 42 of them is stop by good guy with massive balls.

    So by the statistic provided we should give everyone massive balls instead of gun to stop gun violence.

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      2 months 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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        2 months ago

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

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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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                2 months ago

                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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                    For practical purposes imagine yourself in a public area with the gunman actively shooting people with an AR-15, to the left of you a guys head is turned to mush, down the way someone takes a hit to a limb leaving their arm dangling in an unnatural way. All around you are dead and dying you ignore the pistol in your pocket and run at him screaming “I’m going to take you down brudder”.

                    The people who subdued people without shooting them probably didn’t have a gun.

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      I wish we could win this argument with logic, but I’m certain the fanatics will immediately latch onto the narrative that guns are being used by good guys already, but we obviously need more guns and less restrictions on them them to get those numbers up.

      With Republicans, any fact against them is either ignored or bastardized to say the opposite of what it actually says.

      • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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        Yeah, there’s rarely any logical sense being made because to them gun is a right, not privileges, and once privileges turn into right it take a dictator to take that away.

        But then again, jailing people in shitty prison where most right are taken away is a okay 🤷