Man arrested for pointing gun at 6-year-old boy's head over Halloween goody bag

Or, as has actually happened before, a good guy with a gun kills the bad guy and then gets shot by the cops who arrive thinking the guy with the gun is the bad guy:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/560798-police-chief-hails-good-guy-with-a-gun-after-officer-kills/

It’s deflective rhetoric so they don’t have to address the truth:

We don’t know who is going to make a bad decision with their gun until after they do it.

Yeah, my coworkers said how great it would have been after the Colorado movie theater shooting (Batman movie) if everyone was armed. They just knew the original shooter would have been killed right away.

So,

1. Dark theater
2. Smoke filled (by shooter)
3. Bullets suddenly flying

Who in their right mind thinks basically everyone wouldn't have been mowed down in a hail of gun fire?

It's either that, or the people with guns are afraid to use them when the time comes and they hesitate too long to do any good.

I've always wondered how people thought the "good guy with a gun" would work in a chaotic real world situation.

They picture it pretty much how it went down here:

Personally, I would just prefer to have a pistol in hand if I ended up in the last part of 'run, hide, fight'.

Well if there is one thing a chaotic and violent situation needs is more guns.

I've been looking at your other comments and have some things to say.

1. Clearly your your out of your mind defending cops on Lemmy.world, for real when is calling the cops ever not put you the caller in a new type of danger? Fools with guns is bad regardless of the context and I for one cannot trust someone I have never met, especially the armed paramilitary we call police here in America.

2. Nice 'something tells me comment, always makes someone's comments feel real sincere.

3. Most people can't defend themselves, that's reality. I'm actually pro gun but anti-idiot, and most people are idiots and that deeply complicates your arguments.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, I'm not a professional nor frankly good at most things, if you have problems with my arguments please, comment it don't save it to yourself.

Yeah cause when I call the cops about my stolen possessions and raped daughter they do so much to bring justice.

If you think the cops are actually going to protect you if shit goes down, you're naive as fuck. They're not even obligated to do so.

I don’t recall saying cops are useless. Are you sure you’re replying to the right person?

The police do illustrate over and over again that even trained professionals make bad decisions when issued guns. And of course the solution isn’t to escalate things by raising the threat of officers being shot, but instead in finding ways to have less people with guns, so police aren’t on alert all the time and aren’t as tempted to use their guns as their only solution.

As a thought experiment: If we gave every adult in the world access to fire the entire planet’s nuclear payload and destroy everyone, do you think we’d all be safer? Would the world even last 5 minutes?

The more people you give access to deadly weapons, the more likely you are going to run into someone who is stupid, impulsive, or downright crazy and is going to use that weapon to harm themselves or others.

I don't think cops are useless, I think they are a flawed institution that we as a society can fix by reforms. And I don't even see the big deal in this, nothing is perfect, everything can be made better or more appropriate for the situation. Long run it would be better for police unions to agree to some changes in training, scope, and methods because it would restore and gain more public trust. And the public will benefit as well.

Before clicking, I thought you were quoting from "Sin Wagon," and I thought you really missed the point of the song.

Seriously... if you're ready to shoot a couple kids ding-dong-ditching you then you don't need your gun, you need a fucking psych ward.

He needs to be moved to a prison.

Move in?

Well, the kid did threathen him with a "Trick" if he din't gave him a "Treat".

Maybe he thought it was the "two people that knocked on the door before," not the "6 year old."

See what happens when you use your brain? Life starts to make sense, lol.

You probably don't know what he's dealing with or who he's angered.

If we armed all 6yros this wouldn't happen

Good kids with guns stop bad guys with guns.

Imagine doing time for "fun" sized

I think it was a rhetorical question to shed light on the fact that he did not fire.

Not really needed:

Mom and daughter goes to drop off goody bag at house, does this, realizes that they dropped it off at the wrong address, goes back to pick it up, shithead point a gun at the daughter's head when they try and pick up the goody bag.

Reading the article? On Reddit Lemmy?? Ain't nobody got time for that