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Zenith2017 t1_j8www3h wrote

Another good guy with a gun, FOILED! I'm sure he, like all responsible law-abiding Good Guys With Guns™️, had nothing but peaceful intentions with those multiple guns. That's why they call it the amendment of peace, it's all about maintaining nonviolence, one bullet at a time. This guy could have committed 67 nonviolences with all those bullets. What a patriot o7

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trs21219 t1_j8xdewd wrote

I mean the guy is an idiot sure, pretty much everyone who carries knows that Federal buildings are off limits; but there is nothing here that suggests he had malicious intention. Just that he likes to go a bit overboard with carrying concealed.

You can bet that the Marshals, the FBI or the Federal Protective Services have already gotten warrants to look at his social media accounts and have talked to people close to him to find out if he was attempting something. If so he would have been arrested.

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Zenith2017 t1_j8xe1ok wrote

The greater point of the satire I tried to make was that every gun owner is a well intended responsible and safe gun owner, up until the moment they aren't. The opposite is a rhetoric that tries to justify guys like these, mal-intended or not.

*Autocorrect

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Cryptic_Skies t1_j8xl42d wrote

i think satire died when too many people took The Colbert Report to be real...

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Zenith2017 t1_j96wx4v wrote

At some point Colbert, the daily show (god I still miss Jon Stewart), SNL etc just became bad imitations of reality in a way, haha

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Cryptic_Skies t1_j9ahlnc wrote

> just became bad imitations of reality...

as art often does.

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Gojira085 t1_j8x93tu wrote

I mean he was stopped by armed guards in the lobby so I don't see your point...

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EveryoneisOP3 t1_j8yayb3 wrote

Was he stopped by their guns or because of other security measures?

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Gojira085 t1_j920z8k wrote

I would say both as the guns are a part of those security measures...

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leadfoot9 t1_j96crcn wrote

Twice.

They found two guns, turned him back, and found a third gun the second time.

It's also implied that they only screened him the second time because he didn't have his employee ID on him. That might be putting too much faith in the wording of a short news blurb, but still.

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PorkyWallace t1_j93u4bm wrote

There are around 16,000 murders by gunshot each year in the US. Of cases where the perp is known, at lease 80% of those murders are committed by someone who either could not legally possess a firearm and/or was using a stolen/illegally purchased firearm.

Law abiding gun owners (45 million) own at least 320 million legal firearms and untold trillions of rounds of ammunition. If we were as dangerous as people believe, the murder rate would be 100x higher.

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Zenith2017 t1_j93vbof wrote

And if you were less numerous than you are, the murder rate would be lower. Shocker

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PorkyWallace t1_j96snad wrote

Do you know that black people comprise 16% of the population?

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports on Crime in the US, in cases in which the perp's race is known, blacks consistently account for:

50% of all murders

34.5% of all reported rapes & sexual assaults.

51% of all armed robberies.

53% of all aggravates assaults.

So, using your logic, if blacks were less numerous, the violent crime rate would be lower, correct?

Shocker.

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Zenith2017 t1_j96vokw wrote

Well, we know the justice system skews those numbers by nature. It's not a good comparison. There's no disproving the fact that more guns means more gun violence. Keep on raging contard

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