ZeroCool@feddit.ch to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoMan arrested for pointing gun at 6-year-old boy's head over Halloween goody bagabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up1499arrow-down112
arrow-up1487arrow-down1external-linkMan arrested for pointing gun at 6-year-old boy's head over Halloween goody bagabcnews.go.comZeroCool@feddit.ch to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square187fedilink
minus-squareGarbanzo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-210 months ago 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’.
minus-squareEncrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoYeah they picture it as a very specific scenario with one mass shooter and one retaliatory shooter. Any more than one retaliatory shooter and it all falls apart as OP described though lol.
They picture it pretty much how it went down here:
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Park_Mall_shooting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Park_Mall_shooting)
Personally, I would just prefer to have a pistol in hand if I ended up in the last part of ‘run, hide, fight’.
Yeah they picture it as a very specific scenario with one mass shooter and one retaliatory shooter. Any more than one retaliatory shooter and it all falls apart as OP described though lol.