Donald Trump Speaks About Paris Attacks

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16 Nov 2015, 3:00 pm

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He's got a point... if the people were armed, the shooters would have been stopped...

That's not entirely true.

Just because people have guns, doesn't mean they will react properly in a high tense situation.

The terrorists had military grade weapons and gear, maybe even bullet proof vests.
They would have easily taken out armed civilians.


As easily as they were able to "take out" the unarmed citizens they killed, do you imagine???

My guess, for discussion purposes, is if only 10 armed citizens, with average accuracy and tactical skills were to fire upon each attacker, a significant number of civilian lives could have been saved.

Of course, if we speak of domestic mass killers in the midst of an armed society, the availability of arms could produce even more effective results, assuming we're not talking about the so called "gun free" killing "zones."



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16 Nov 2015, 3:16 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Let's not forget that most mass shootings in US were conducted by White guys, there was a recent study showing that states with more gun ownership restrictions had about 50% less incidents of shootings.


:D What's the possibility of getting a link to your source? I say this because I lived in Chicago for 40 years and know they've had extremely strict gun laws but frequently lead our country in slayings? NY is also very strict/killing prone so I wonder where they accumulated their data to arrive at such a conclusion?

I've seen this type of post before but haven't seen any cites.

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16 Nov 2015, 4:18 pm

There are good businessmen who are poor politicians and good politicians who are poor businessman. Rarely are people who are good at both. Trump is no exception to the rule.



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16 Nov 2015, 9:32 pm

progaspie wrote:
There are good businessmen who are poor politicians and good politicians who are poor businessman. Rarely are people who are good at both. Trump is no exception to the rule.


Or for that matter, great brain surgeons, but awful politicians.


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