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Gun Control & RKBA

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virginia mountainman

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Mon Nov 9, 2015, 09:33 PM Nov 2015

The real reason concealed carry is so hated by gun control advocates... [View all]

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151103/gage-park/armed-customer-who-killed-robber-called-angel-from-heaven

Quote the boy's mother and store owner:

“All I know is that someone came in here threatening my sons, and this angel used a gun he was allowed to carry, and he saved them,” Cabrales said.


From the owner of a store two doors away:

“I don’t believe in vigilante justice, but I don’t know what would have happened if that guy hadn’t been there,” Guzman said. “I mean, the same thing could just as easily have happened to my store.”


From a shop owner down the block, who was robbed a month ago:

“I do trust the police, but lately I really haven’t felt safe here,” Vidales said. “I never like violence, but in [this] case, I think he did the right thing. I’m glad he was there.


And from another nearby business owner:

“Seeing that happen right on this block makes me think I’d feel much better if I were armed, and if my customers were armed,” Cruz said. “Now I want to get a concealed carry permit myself.”


This is what armed self defence is intended for, folks to be empowered to protect themselves, and loved ones. Stories like this, complete devastate the narrative of the gun control advocate, it is stories like this, that keep gun control advocates sequestered away behind locked forums scared to face the public at large, because there slavish dogma simply cannot compete in the reality of the real world:

Armed self defence WORKS.
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I guess nobody told the customer that Hispanics don't want to carry guns DonP Nov 2015 #1
I live in Florida, the Gunshine State. I know a good number of Hispanics and blacks ... spin Nov 2015 #13
gun owners protecting themselves from gun owners. no guns, no need nt msongs Nov 2015 #2
I've noticed that seems to be your plan. krispos42 Nov 2015 #4
I wish the gundamentalists would help society distringuish intentions among gun owners LonePirate Nov 2015 #8
Gundamentalists? GGJohn Nov 2015 #9
Applying logic... discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2015 #10
Because we all know criminals only use guns. ileus Nov 2015 #15
Concealed carry is scary? NutellaBear Nov 2015 #29
If only we could find a way to... discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2015 #14
Seems to me a lot of these "criminals" upaloopa Nov 2015 #26
I think bad guys would be fine with that too! NutellaBear Nov 2015 #30
Wrong. GGJohn Nov 2015 #5
No guns, and I'm essentially defenseless against someone I can't outrun. Lizzie Poppet Nov 2015 #12
Funny but I know a 13 year old girl who can break four ribs with a single kick. flamin lib Nov 2015 #17
Martial arts... beevul Nov 2015 #19
That would be karate... discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2015 #24
While I don't consider hand-to-hand martial arts a substitute... Lizzie Poppet Nov 2015 #20
Well, as I said elsewhere in this thread flamin lib Nov 2015 #22
Hoping the SCOTUS does the right thing on that one. Lizzie Poppet Nov 2015 #25
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2015 #31
Come on now, owning a gun makes it 9000 times Kang Colby Nov 2015 #3
did you catch what she was watching on TV? gejohnston Nov 2015 #6
Yup, my wife spotted that the first time we saw those videos. Kang Colby Nov 2015 #7
Only thing is that the vast majority of women who are victims of rape or flamin lib Nov 2015 #18
Yep: it's about 80/20 acquaintance vs stranger in the case of rape. Lizzie Poppet Nov 2015 #21
And if they know you they know you have a gun and possibly where it is giving them flamin lib Nov 2015 #23
They don't like CC because it takes you out of the easy victim pool. ileus Nov 2015 #11
"is stories like this, that keep gun control advocates sequestered away behind locked forums" Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2015 #16
Well, yeah HassleCat Nov 2015 #27
Better get your argument under cover or the straw will get moldy... friendly_iconoclast Nov 2015 #28
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