Matt Bors for April 17, 2014
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Woman: So guys, this Cliven Bundy fellow rallied some armed protesters and the feds backed down. Woman #2: NICE. Let's bring guns to our next Keystone Pipeline action! Pony-tailed Man: Second amendment. News Anchor: Janet. I'm live on the scene. It's pure carnage. No 2 XL News Anchor: The police really gave those hippie scum what for.
It’s a nice fantasy, fueled by too many bad cop shows.Even cops, trained to shoot under pressure, hit their targets perhaps one time out of twenty. Bullets go somewhere. They don’t just vanish because they don’t hit their target.How much worse, then, are amateurs shooting because they THINK they can take the guy out with one shot?YOUR scenario has any number of innocent by standards slain with no guarantee that the bad guy would even get hit. It’s like the old joke of the idiot’s firing squad: in a circle around the victim.MY scenario works quite well, thank you. There’s a reason why the US has an appalling handgun death rate, a thousand times that of the UK.