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Chased home: Mob attacks man in his house

Soon I will buy my own gun and get it registered. In situations of self-defense, it's better to rely on yourself than the late police or the politicians who think criminals would obey anti-gun laws.
 
Education...education is the answer. I would bet a dime to a dollar those who chased the man dropped out of school...and somehow that will be OUR fault.
 
People often forget a simply truth. If everyone is armed, no one has the upper hand. So if you believe that more guns in our society will stop violence, I'd suggest you think about the possibly that all of those men who stormed into the house could possibly be armed as well. What turned out to be a few bruises and bumps could have been a mass murder instead if more guns were involved.

The problem with your "simply truth" is that right now there are laws and regulations that prevent good people from defending themselves against bad people. Good people care about not being criminals and therefore they obey the law. Bad people don't care at all about the law and therefore they are immune to these regulations and pose an immediate threat to those who are unable to defend themselves.
 
'We got you, you white mother-------!' " LaVelle said he heard someone yell in the "mob" of black and Hispanic youths.

Has the liberal media talked about this obvious racism?

...something tells me if it were white students chasing a black/Hispanic student, we'd see it in the news.

 
This is where you fail every time. I never made a negative generality about guns, but that you perceived my comments as doing that simply shows your sensitivity.

It wasn't my sensitivity that wrote these:

That's a fair point. Another gun could have certainly escalated the situation.

considering that (at least) one of the mob guys had a gun, here's a potential scenario: homeowner grabs his gun, shoots, mob guy shoots, all hell breaks loose, kids dead off of stray bullets

One of those scenarios is that your find (the current one), another is that you get beaten to death, another is that you pull out a gun and then your entire family gets shot.

Here's another possibility: he had a gun, situation escalates, he and his family die. Nothing that you've had does anything to stop that from being a possibility.

Why is it so hard for people to admit that a gun can make a situation worse?

Pointing out that guns aren't a magical cure-all to every violent situation is already obvious to most. That's why it's patronizing to bring it up so many times -- and even more so in a case where the criminal had already produced a gun. Baring freak accidents and other odd scenarios, things are already 'worse.'
 
Huh. Kinda looks like MSNBC in term of stupid exposition, but...

...that's not MSNBC.

Again...

...something tells me if it were white students chasing a black/Hispanic student, we'd see it in the news.

You may be right. OTOH, if was a black group chasing a couple of black kids with pipes you'd never hear about it. White group chasing a couple of white kids, it's front page material....
 
You may be right. OTOH, if was a black group chasing a couple of black kids with pipes you'd never hear about it. White group chasing a couple of white kids, it's front page material....

Why do yo think that?

Black people kill black people every day...

...and white people kill white people every day.

No difference in media.
 
It wasn't my sensitivity that wrote these:
And none of those are negative generalities about guns. They're actually pretty specific scenarios or points that I made in response to the specific questions or comments of other posters. So yeah, sensitivity.

That's why it's patronizing to bring it up so many times
If you think I'm being patronizing, then you're being sensitive. Please take that somewhere else. You're literally picking a fight with me because you think it's "patronizing" of me to state my opinion on a debate board when I wasn't even talking to you. What a joke.
 
Why do yo think that?

Black people kill black people every day...

...and white people kill white people every day.

No difference in media.

Au contraire -- white people killing white people, or black people killing white people, or black people killing white people = news. Black people killing black people = no coverage.
 
Au contraire -- white people killing white people, or black people killing white people, or black people killing white people = news. Black people killing black people = no coverage.

that's because its the most common scenario
 
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