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Originally Posted by wittynickname
All I kept thinking after Dallas, and the guy with the AR-15 who ended up being completely innocent--you never know who is a good guy with a gun or a bad guy with a gun until he starts shooting.
And really--if trained officers can't handle a madman with a weapon, what makes a random Joe off the street think he's a good enough marksman to pull it off?
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The guy with the AR-15 also ruined the argument that it provides protection.
Protest gets open-fired on. The first thing that the hero with the AR-15 does? Throws it away so he doesn't become a target.
I mean, it was a reasonable decision (as much as reasonable can be attributed to someone walking around with that type of weapon) and I understand the decision. I'm not expecting him to be a hero and get involved in a gunfight and risk his life. But when he recognized the threat, his immediate reaction was realizing that the gun he had strapped to him made him a target, exact opposite of the protection it was suppose to provide.