Why aren't the pro-gun lobby boasting about the woman who killed an active shooter in West Virginia?

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"A US woman has fatally shot a man who opened fire on a crowd of people with a semi-automatic rifle in Charleston, West Virginia.
Dennis Butler, a 37-year-old with an extensive criminal history, was killed after he targeted a group of around 40 people attending a birthday party."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61615236

I mean, it's not a bad thing that she did, but it wouldn't have happened if the attacker didn't have a gun.

"Bystander who shot gunman dead but was then killed by police hailed as hero
John Hurley intervened after attacker shot officer dead
Hurley, 40 picked up gun and was shot dead by police"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/28/colorado-gunman-police-officer-killed

Because they didn't hear about it

Because the last hero who did that got killed by the police

Because it nearly never happens

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[Kaneki05]

I mean they are doing so. The point of course don't work once someone turns around and say yeah but in my country he wouldn't of had a AR-15 anyway therefore no chance of him shooting up 21 people or more like the texas shooting wouldn't hear that happen my city any time soon.

[ChrisMaster69]

You do of course know you can own AR-15s etc and a shit load of other firearms in the UK.

It’s never really been that hard.

[Kaneki05]

@ChrisMaster69 Don't see how that disproves my point that a school shooting wouldn't happen here. Or do you think they very common like America and that everyone here owns guns because... in case you missed it we don't. Come back to me when school shooting like texas happens then we will talk about how AR-15s are easy to get and owned by many people here.

[ChrisMaster69]

@Kaneki05 calm down Tiffany, was simply pointing out that you can actually buy AR-15 in the UK, firing.223 ammo which is more than capable of killing kids.

There are enough various types of lethal non air weapons that you can legally buy in the UK.

There is an element of being foolish in saying a school shooting would not happen here, it just takes one psycho with a moss berg to enter a school, backed up by say a single fire AR15 .223

https://youtu.be/e25lk0fKD9w

https://youtu.be/2bMn_5c4oKs

Granted not as many people have a firearms certificate and for some firearms there is some tighter scrutiny, however it’s circa 560,000 firearms that require a certificate to be held.

While it only has a capacity for 3 shells, it’s still easy to load quickly and is legal.

https://youtu.be/10NnjbYmJ-U

When you throw around would not happen in the UK, you really tempt fate,

What if the last Incel shooter in Plymouth had of walked into a school or shopping centre?

[Kaneki05]

@ChrisMaster69 speaking hypotheticals is shrugs to me. Someone could also somehow get a tank and drive it into a school but the chances are a nah. And you don't need to prove to me guns exist there is literally a gun shop right near me lmao.

[ChrisMaster69]

@Kaneki05 no they cannot simply get a tank.

The point is you said it would not happen in the UK, which is just being really foolish.

Also not proving firearms exist, I am pointing out you can actually buy AR-15 in the UK legally.

Quote your point ‘ but in my country he wouldn't of had a AR-15 anyway therefore no chance of him shooting up 21 people’ unquote.

That is where you are wrong, as you can.

It’s just that the average Brit does not think as per Americans, hence Dunblane was pretty much the only ever school shooting (one at some point with kids firing flintlocks from school)

[Kaneki05]

@ChrisMaster69 You don't think anyone's ever drove a tank before? Might need to look into some news were a guy for sure owned a tank lmao. And my quote is still correct prove to me were someone own's a AR-15 and shot up 21 people like texas?

[Kaneki05]

I never said AR-15s were illegal here so your point is here. Is nothing to me lol.

[ChrisMaster69]

@Kaneki05 look you were wrong, just accept it and move on.

Yeah plenty people have owned the likes of Abbot SP etc

Again quote ‘ in my country he wouldn't of had a AR-15 anyway’ unquote.

Yes a person can own one.

It is also fairly easy to own and fire a 0.5 BMG rifle

In the UK, we use firearms for target shooting, clay, game and that’s about it, no one really buys a weapon for home defence.

The chances of another mass shooting happening are greatly reduced due to various regulations etc, however again it would be foolish to say it would not happen.

[Kaneki05]

@ChrisMaster69 Yes I am wrong sorry. I was super wrong at my point, people over here are shooting AR-15s in schools, and at people all the time. Jeez look how many people own guns over it's so many. Your right, people are just gun crazy over here.
And you are right I totally said these guns were illegal and impossible to get here somewhere within my comment.

[goaded]

@ChrisMaster69 Half a million firearms is one for every 120 people in the UK. Almost certainly far less than that because if you've gone to the trouble of getting a licence, why not own two? Compare that to 40% of US households. Yes, it's not impossible, but it's very, very unlikely.

[ChrisMaster69]

Pretty poor sarcasm really,

The simple point is you said they would not have owned an AR-15, after that you just try to dig a hole.

Your last is simply making shit up, to try and divert it.

There are a shit load of shotgun owners with depression etc.

There will be another Plymouth or Raol Moat

Gun crime is dropping significantly in the UK, however it’s always there.

Having lived in Birmingham, you get used to Tac Police responding to a shooting.

People are shot, stabbed etc in the UK, it’s not some pretty garden with nothing happening, there will be another firearms tragedy in the UK at some point.

[Kaneki05]

@ChrisMaster69 Please tell me where I said people aren't shot or stabbed in england and it's just a garden? Now who's diverting the convo. Lmao.

[goaded]

@ChrisMaster69 I'm not the opinion owner. Absolute safety isn't attainable, relative safety is. The UK firearm death rate is 0.20, the US is 12.21. Firearm murders: 0.02 and 4.46. I know where I'd rather live.

en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

[ChrisMaster69]

@goaded oh I know it’s very unlikely, it’s just not zero, as in it would not happen.

It will happen at some point.

Yes the chances of a Hungerford or a Dunblane is greatly reduced.

The events we have had in the UK, are tragedies and it would be great to say something similar would not happen again, however that would be a lie really,

These events are horrific

www.bbc.co.uk/.../hungerford_massacre

The point stands, saying a future gunman would not have an AR15 is wrong, as is saying it would not happen, hopefully not for a few hundred years.

[Kaneki05]

I'm gonna say it wouldn't because it hasn't. Until someone goes out, and does such deed then proves me wrong which hopefully they never will keeping me in the right.

[MountAverage]

Oh wow, it finally happened!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CVTH3_Bf-I

[Anonymous]

Does someone pay you to write this drivel?

If it were up to you there’d be no guns, no borders, no religion or churches, no limits on abortion, and people would be issued a face mask and a Covid “vaccine” as soon as they get pushed out of the womb.

You’re practically a caricature of the Left today.

I’ll say what I always say, why are you people so hellbent on keeping a woman from shooting her rapist?
https://news.yahoo.com/woman-shoots-kills-alleged-intruder-000334771.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/us/dallas-mom-shoots-carjacker/index.htm

[goaded]

So, once every couple of years a gun is used for good, once every couple of days there's a mass shooting, and 27 times a day someone is murdered with a gun in the US.

"If it were up to you there’d be no guns, no borders, no religion or churches, no limits on abortion, and people would be issued a face mask and a Covid “vaccine” as soon as they get pushed out of the womb." Congratulations! You're wrong on every single count.

[OddBeMe]

That is sad. Reminds me of the Dallas sniper attack. Cops were getting shot at during a march where lots of people were “peacefully” carrying weapons. And they couldnt ID the shooter.

[goaded]

People in Las Vegas were afraid to draw their weapons (not that they'd have done any good, shooting up 13 floors) because they might be mistaken for the shooter.

[IsoUser]

It's essentially that any Senators or Congressman male or female don't want to jump on the quote " Band Wagon " and lose all those kick backs and free complimentary free trips that the Public Taxpayer Trough provides them to dig their own perspective SNOUTS and Trough into being the Pigs that they are, while everyone else suffers. Politicians only give a Crap about being Reelected Not You, You freaking Morons

[goaded]

There's not a Republican in congress that would win re-election if they support gun control. Not because the majority of the people in their area wouldn't vote for them, but because they'd be kicked off the ballot at the primary stage.

[Still-alive]

Gun lobbyists desperately want this to be what people think happens that a ‘good guy with a gun’ will act when this is only a rare exception. Its still a myth folks.

[AviatorTom]

Interesting that this happened in West Virginia, US, yet the two news items cited are in the UK.

[goaded]

The two news outlets are, the news is from the US. The BBC and Guardian are both trustworthy sources for news. Slightly left leaning.

[anylolone]

But the attacker did have a gun and you can't stop attackers from having guns, bombs, trucks of peace, etc.

[goaded]

You can reduce the chances of some random person having a gun to practically zero.

[anylolone]

Nope, you basically can't with porous boarders, like brazil or US. (actually, any American country)

Outside of countries like singapore, GB, japan taiwan, you just can't. Actually, considering nowdays, strike GB from that.

Also, don't you believe that protecting and enforcing the boarders is impossible?

[goaded]

America's supplying firearms to Mexico, not the other way around. Regardless, if you make it difficult, you make it expensive. If you can afford to buy a gun for tens of thousands, you probably don't need to rob people because you've got tens of thousands.

[anylolone]

Actually, it goes both ways. In mexico, the biggest source of guns is... The police, second by rouge regimes like russia, china, or biden's taliban.

Good chances that you are spouting this bullshit is because of an article that says 90% of all weapons confiscated in mexico are from the US.
Reality is, 87% of all weapons sent to the US for tracing by the ATF that could be traced by the ATF were from the US. Those where 12% of the total.
I ask myself how could the AFT trace those 13%...
I know how, can you guess?

It doesn't make sense for the cartels to source much of their weapons from the US, too expensive compared to other options. Specially since you can't buy automatic weapons from the US.

[Pudsmucker]

The news media did not want to recognize what had transpired by that woman. Taking out an idiot that got his feelings hurt.

[driven159]

most people are not brave enough to confront someone with a gun and the police treat the hero like a criminal

[Jamie05rhs]

We are, actually.

[888theGreat]

Sounds good to me