09-08-2015, 02:31 PM
(09-08-2015, 12:18 PM)xxlt Wrote: Since it seems part of the NRA ideology that all "good guys" should carry guns because whenever a "bad guy" pulls a gun or invades a home or does any other bad thing a good guy with a gun will always win the conflict that ensues if and only if he has a gun, here is my question.
Why don't the NRA and their advocates trot out story after story just like the one in the OP where a bad guy - in that case a teen committing a home invasion - was gunned down by a good guy?
It always seems to me there are not too many actual stories that fit their ideology as well as this one (and of course on further examination this one may not fit their ideology either, as some have already suggested).
Instead, it seems like there are a lot more true stories where the good guy accidentally shoots himself, intentionally shoots himself, accidentally shoots a family member or other good guy, intentionally shoots a family member or some other good guy, the good guy has the gun taken by a bad guy and used against him or someone else, or the good guy or a family member or a child accidentally or intentionally discharges the gun causing injury or death to an innocent person.
Every day we read about intentional and accidental shootings where the person (people) killed was (were) not "the bad guy(s)." So why aren't the NRA and other gun zealots unearthing and trumpeting as many or more stories of "the good guy" with his gun who saved the day and shot (or just scared off) "the bad guy." Is it because reality doesn't jibe with their ideology? Or are they just failing to communicate the actual stories that prove why all good guys should carry? And if so, why are they sitting on facts that would make their case?
Because it would be terrible form to celebrate the injury or death of a human being.
Regardless if it supported their agenda, they would be demonized and rightfully so.
Furthermore, I'm doubting that those situations where people are scared off are ever even reported.
