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Police: Suspect Carried Gun To Benghazi Screening In Fear Of Mass Shootings

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Police: Suspect Carried Gun To Benghazi Screening In Fear Of Mass Shootings

More and more woundings and killings by these gun freaks are occurring because of this moronic lie that being armed protects us all. This mope could be a poster child for this idiocy.

The Seattle Times reported that Gallion’s explanations for how exactly the gun went off varied significantly. His father, Donald Gallion, told police that his son said the gun had fallen from his pocket and gone off. But Gallion himself told the arresting officer that another movie attendee had reached for his crotch, causing him to accidentally fire the weapon. He then told a different officer at the police station that a man had been bothering him and that the gun accidentally went off during their altercation, according to the newspaper.
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If we find out that this guy either has a criminal or psychiatric history and how easily he got a side arm (and apparently other firearms--see below) we will again learn just how big a lie the gun freak claim that their phony "second amendment rights" are being threatened.

And this just shows how permissive our legal system is for these cretins:
The Times reported that in his first court appearance over the weekend, Gallion was ordered to hand over all firearms to a family member for safekeeping and to steer clear of alcohol and controlled substances. He reportedly struggles with depression and anxiety, and told police he had taken anti-anxiety medication and consumed a 22-ounce beer Friday before seeing the movie.
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Regardless of whatever happens to this idiot, all his firearms should have been confiscated by authorities and never returned to him. Allowing family members to have possession of them is absurd. First, who knows how many other feeble minded nutcases are in this family. And how can they be trusted to keep to report that all weapons have been taken and are secure. In any case there should be no chance whatsoever that he'll ever get his own firearms back but this episode should mean that he will never be legally permitted to own one again.
 
The notion that everyone being armed protects us all is dependent on the assumption that everyone with a gun will act responsibly or that someone who isn't acting responsibly with a gun will be stopped by someone else acting responsibly with a gun.

And that is a perfectly logical assumption for some folks, when discussing the abstract.

Point out specific situations like this one where that wasn't the case, and you will get a host of excuses being made about this person isn't representative or that this person is a criminal and thus, exempt from the "everyone being armed protects us all."

On a side note: This story is already being discussed in another thread, but I'm not sure which.
 
digitusmedius said:
Police: Suspect Carried Gun To Benghazi Screening In Fear Of Mass Shootings

More and more woundings and killings by these gun freaks are occurring because of this moronic lie that being armed protects us all. This mope could be a poster child for this idiocy.


If we find out that this guy either has a criminal or psychiatric history and how easily he got a side arm (and apparently other firearms--see below) we will again learn just how big a lie the gun freak claim that their phony "second amendment rights" are being threatened.

And this just shows how permissive our legal system is for these cretins:


Regardless of whatever happens to this idiot, all his firearms should have been confiscated by authorities and never returned to him. Allowing family members to have possession of them is absurd. First, who knows how many other feeble minded nutcases are in this family. And how can they be trusted to keep to report that all weapons have been taken and are secure. In any case there should be no chance whatsoever that he'll ever get his own firearms back but this episode should mean that he will never be legally permitted to own one again.
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This (menatlly unstable and intoxicated?) moron also likely drove to and from that theater. Usiing rare examples of moronic behavior ro justify limiting the freedom of all folks "just in case" it might deter some future and rare moronic behavior of others is not a good idea. This moron should face multiple serious criminal charges and hopefully be removed from society for a very long time.

Most traffic "accidents" are re result of provable moronic negligence yet few (if any) advocate revokation of one's driving privileges for life due to causing "accidents" even when those "accidents" result in the serious injury or death of someone else. Yes, guns in the hands of morons create a serious public hazard but far less of a public hazard than allowing those same morons the privilege of driving. If we, as a society, refuse to permanently remove mere state issued privileges from these known to be dangerous, careless and negligent morons then it makes no sense to permanenetly remove their constitutional rights based only on the particular tool abused.

The "bame the tool" logic is a complete fail. Blame, charge, try, convict and severely punish all of these dangerous, careless and negligent morons regardless of which, if any, particular tool is used to accompllsh injury and/or death of others.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
This (menatlly unstable and intoxicated?) moron also likely drove to and from that theater. Usiing rare examples of moronic behavior ro justify limiting the freedom of all folks "just in case" it might deter some future and rare moronic behavior of others is not a good idea. This moron should face multiple serious criminal charges and hopefully be removed from society for a very long time.

Most traffic "accidents" are re result of provable moronic negligence yet few (if any) advocate revokation of one's driving privileges for life due to causing "accidents" even when those "accidents" result in the serious injury or death of someone else. Yes, guns in the hands of morons create a serious public hazard but far less of a public hazard than allowing those same morons the privilege of driving. If we, as a society, refuse to permanently remove mere state issued privileges from these known to be dangerous, careless and negligent morons then it makes no sense to permanenetly remove their constitutional rights based only on the particular tool abused.

The "bame the tool" logic is a complete fail. Blame, charge, try, convict and severely punish all of these dangerous, careless and negligent morons regardless of which, if any, particular tool is used to accompllsh injury and/or death of others.
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Not rare in any sense of that term. Dozens of these "accidental" discharges occur every week with many wounded and anywhere from several killed, often children. Here's just the most recent tally (only 41 documented in this report but it's often nearer 60-70). And don't think you can claim "liberal" source because each case is documented with a link to the actual news report:
Waistband ninja in Target: 'I was just walking with it, the stupid $#*& went off!' GunFAIL CLXXI
 
digitusmedius said:
Not rare in any sense of that term. Dozens of these "accidental" discharges occur every week with many wounded and anywhere from several killed, often children. Here's just the most recent tally (only 41 documented in this report but it's often nearer 60-70). And don't think you can claim "liberal" source because each case is documented with a link to the actual news report:
Waistband ninja in Target: 'I was just walking with it, the stupid $#*& went off!' GunFAIL CLXXI
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300 million plus guns. the rate of accidental gun injuries is minuscule. and those accidental injury rates are DECREASING even though the number of guns legally owned is rapidly INCREASING
 
digitusmedius said:
Police: Suspect Carried Gun To Benghazi Screening In Fear Of Mass Shootings

More and more woundings and killings by these gun freaks are occurring because of this moronic lie that being armed protects us all. This mope could be a poster child for this idiocy.


If we find out that this guy either has a criminal or psychiatric history and how easily he got a side arm (and apparently other firearms--see below) we will again learn just how big a lie the gun freak claim that their phony "second amendment rights" are being threatened.

And this just shows how permissive our legal system is for these cretins:


Regardless of whatever happens to this idiot, all his firearms should have been confiscated by authorities and never returned to him. Allowing family members to have possession of them is absurd. First, who knows how many other feeble minded nutcases are in this family. And how can they be trusted to keep to report that all weapons have been taken and are secure. In any case there should be no chance whatsoever that he'll ever get his own firearms back but this episode should mean that he will never be legally permitted to own one again.
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You authoritarians really don't give a **** about the constitution, due process, do you?
 
digitusmedius said:
Not rare in any sense of that term. Dozens of these "accidental" discharges occur every week with many wounded and anywhere from several killed, often children. Here's just the most recent tally (only 41 documented in this report but it's often nearer 60-70). And don't think you can claim "liberal" source because each case is documented with a link to the actual news report:
Waistband ninja in Target: 'I was just walking with it, the stupid $#*& went off!' GunFAIL CLXXI
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lol, just the facts....


from your article from that hack site:

"Enough for 23 people to accidentally shoot themselves, anyway. For eight kids to be accidentally shot. Enough for nine fatalities. And for seven people to accidentally shoot family members or significant others. For five people to be shot in hunting accidents, for four cops to be involved in GunFAILs, and three people to accidentally fire guns they claim to have been cleaning. In other words, an entirely typical week, the sorry-ass results of which are detailed below."


so 23, 8 were kids, 9 people totoal killed and 7 shooting gamily members... blah bla blah...


so like in a country of 320 million people, you think this isn't "Rare"?


Lets round this up lets says your site claimed 100.... out of 320 million people that is 0.003125% of the population accidentally shooting themselves or others.



DO you think getting hit by a car in say NYC is common, or rare?
 
digitusmedius said:
Police: Suspect Carried Gun To Benghazi Screening In Fear Of Mass Shootings

More and more woundings and killings by these gun freaks are occurring because of this moronic lie that being armed protects us all. This mope could be a poster child for this idiocy.


If we find out that this guy either has a criminal or psychiatric history and how easily he got a side arm (and apparently other firearms--see below) we will again learn just how big a lie the gun freak claim that their phony "second amendment rights" are being threatened.

And this just shows how permissive our legal system is for these cretins:


Regardless of whatever happens to this idiot, all his firearms should have been confiscated by authorities and never returned to him. Allowing family members to have possession of them is absurd. First, who knows how many other feeble minded nutcases are in this family. And how can they be trusted to keep to report that all weapons have been taken and are secure. In any case there should be no chance whatsoever that he'll ever get his own firearms back but this episode should mean that he will never be legally permitted to own one again.
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Your problem is that you INTENTIONALLY avoid the part where pretty much all of those us who suport private gun ownership add in the word RESPONSIBLE to those who are armed. This guy ISN'T a responsible gun owner, he's a paranoid idiot. But bigots like you can't see this, you want to think that all gun owners like this dimwit and they aren't. He's in the vast minority (.00001% kind of minority) of gun owners and completely outside of the category of RESPONSIBLE gun owners.
 
digitusmedius said:
Not rare in any sense of that term. Dozens of these "accidental" discharges occur every week with many wounded and anywhere from several killed, often children. Here's just the most recent tally (only 41 documented in this report but it's often nearer 60-70). And don't think you can claim "liberal" source because each case is documented with a link to the actual news report:
Waistband ninja in Target: 'I was just walking with it, the stupid $#*& went off!' GunFAIL CLXXI
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Rare.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
lol, just the facts....


from your article from that hack site:

"Enough for 23 people to accidentally shoot themselves, anyway. For eight kids to be accidentally shot. Enough for nine fatalities. And for seven people to accidentally shoot family members or significant others. For five people to be shot in hunting accidents, for four cops to be involved in GunFAILs, and three people to accidentally fire guns they claim to have been cleaning. In other words, an entirely typical week, the sorry-ass results of which are detailed below."


so 23, 8 were kids, 9 people totoal killed and 7 shooting gamily members... blah bla blah...


so like in a country of 320 million people, you think this isn't "Rare"?


Lets round this up lets says your site claimed 100.... out of 320 million people that is 0.003125% of the population accidentally shooting themselves or others.



DO you think getting hit by a car in say NYC is common, or rare?
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Oh, jesus h. hockeystick, that old car analolgy again. Is there some gun crazy source (called, e.g. Stupidest and Most Desperate and Inapt Analogies We Can Think Of) that you go to to get these idiotic comparisons? And I love how you use the entire US population to make a statistical case. Gun ownership numbers and the number of deaths by guns are directly correlated (as the article shows most of the discharges, injuries and deaths occur in high ownership parts of the country) and the number of people actually carrying guns is a tiny fraction of that total number of owners--also correlating with high injury and death rates. So, please don't make an even greater fool of yourselves for trying to BS with stuff like numbers. You (as a group) are just not clever enough for that. If you want to use that car analogy, I'll give you the context for how to compare the deaths. How many people are killed by negligently parked cars compared with how many killed by negligently "parked" guns (i.e. guns that are either just lying around for some kid to pick up or are being carried around and end up going off unintentionally)? I doubt there's more than single death a year could be attributed to a badly parked car (but feel free to look it up) but huge numbers of death and injury from "badly parked" guns.
 
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digitusmedius said:
Oh, jesus h. hockeystick, that old car analolgy again. Is there some gun crazy source (called, e.g. Stupidest and Most Desperate and Inapt Analogies We Can Think Of) that you go to to get these idiotic comparisons? And I love how you use the entire US population to make a statistical case. Gun ownership is nowhere near that many and the number of people actually carrying guns is a tiny fraction of that total number. So, please don't make an even greater fool of yourselves for trying to BS with stuff like numbers. You (as a group) are just not clever enough for that.
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Lets take the latest Pew poll on who owns guns, they claim conservatively 37%


That would be 1,184,000 gun owners.... soo rounding up your statistics to 100 for arguments sake that would be 0.008% of the population of gun owners being involved in accidental gun shootings.


So, please don't make an even greater fool of yourselves for trying to BS with stuff like numbers. You (as a group) are just not clever enough for that
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yeah, I know, me and looking the fool using statistics, real numbers, and logic to destroy your ridiculous arguments. Maybe some day I or my "group" will be as clever as you as to not bat an eye throwing baseless useless emotional drivel and fancy myself an intellectual. :lol:
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
Lets take the latest Pew poll on who owns guns, they claim conservatively 37%


That would be 1,184,000 gun owners.... soo rounding up your statistics to 100 for arguments sake that would be 0.008% of the population of gun owners being involved in accidental gun shootings.






yeah, I know, me and looking the fool using statistics, real numbers, and logic to destroy your ridiculous arguments. Maybe some day I or my "group" will be as clever as you as to not bat an eye throwing baseless useless emotional drivel and fancy myself an intellectual. :lol:
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Way to ignore the rest of my comment. That tells me even you got it and didn't want to go there. Congratulations for once again showing the popularity of that third kind of lie.
 
digitusmedius said:
Way to ignore the rest of my comment. That tells me even you got it and didn't want to go there.
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what do you think I ignored? oh wait you made an edit after I posted... note how you try to capitalize on this lying and claiming I avoided it.


So what your "logic" *cough cough* is, is that we would have to compare a car parked car with no human interaction to a gun with human interaction.


I bet parked cars and firearms in similar "parked" states that have had no human interaction, have killed exactly the same amount of people.


Once one gets behind the wheel or fingers on the trigger, then your car analogy fails to help your "argument".
 
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digitusmedius said:
Not rare in any sense of that term. Dozens of these "accidental" discharges occur every week with many wounded and anywhere from several killed, often children. Here's just the most recent tally (only 41 documented in this report but it's often nearer 60-70). And don't think you can claim "liberal" source because each case is documented with a link to the actual news report:
Waistband ninja in Target: 'I was just walking with it, the stupid $#*& went off!' GunFAIL CLXXI
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Even at 60 gun "accidents" per week that is 3,120/year in a nation of about 321,000,000 folks. Yes, that is rare. More (7 times as many per year?) people die from accidental drowning than from accidental gun shots.

CDC - Water-Related Injuries Facts - Home and Recreational Safety - Injury Center
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Even at 60 gun "accidents" per week that is 3,120/year in a nation of about 321,000,000 folks. Yes, that is rare. More (7 times as many per year?) people die from accidental drowning than from accidental gun shots.

CDC - Water-Related Injuries Facts - Home and Recreational Safety - Injury Center
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That's it. Just keep sticking to those absurd and meaningless comparisons. After, all there's nothing rational you can use to justify the bizarre ideas that people like you have. It's the one source of laughter in this otherwise ugly sordid worship of violence that consumes the gun world.
 
digitusmedius said:
That's it. Just keep sticking to those absurd and meaningless comparisons. After, all there's nothing rational you can use to justify the bizarre ideas that people like you have. It's the one source of laughter in this otherwise ugly sordid worship of violence that consumes the gun world.
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OK. You keep right on obsessing with your favorite idea of "gun freaks" causing significant risks to you and yours in the way too scary "gun world" out there. Stay securely inside of your castle, avoid public places like movie theaters and wait until all must get an "A" on their mental health evaluation before they can legally own a gun. You are quite free to avoid comparing/anlyzing various risks and are thus able to worry yourself silly over becoming one of those 60 to 80 per week that accidetally get shot even if well over half of them shoot only themselves.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
OK. You keep right on obsessing with your favorite idea of "gun freaks" causing significant risks to you and yours in the way too scary "gun world" out there. Stay securely inside of your castle, avoid public places like movie theaters and wait until all must get an "A" on their mental health evaluation before they can legally own a gun. You are quite free to avoid comparing/anlyzing various risks and are thus able to worry yourself silly over becoming one of those 60 to 80 per week that accidetally get shot even if well over half of them shoot only themselves.
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Since you like statistics how do you like this one: More people have been shot in movie theaters (and churches) in the past week by your sort than have ever been saved by one.
 
digitusmedius said:
Since you like statistics how do you like this one: More people have been shot in movie theaters (and churches) in the past week by your sort than have ever been saved by one.
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It is undeniably true that an armed criminal attack is often successful. The solution is not to help guarantee even more unarmed victims will be available and even less chances for deranged criminal morons to face armed civilian resistance.
 
digitusmedius said:
Police: Suspect Carried Gun To Benghazi Screening In Fear Of Mass Shootings

More and more woundings and killings by these gun freaks are occurring because of this moronic lie that being armed protects us all. This mope could be a poster child for this idiocy.


If we find out that this guy either has a criminal or psychiatric history and how easily he got a side arm (and apparently other firearms--see below) we will again learn just how big a lie the gun freak claim that their phony "second amendment rights" are being threatened.

And this just shows how permissive our legal system is for these cretins:


Regardless of whatever happens to this idiot, all his firearms should have been confiscated by authorities and never returned to him. Allowing family members to have possession of them is absurd. First, who knows how many other feeble minded nutcases are in this family. And how can they be trusted to keep to report that all weapons have been taken and are secure. In any case there should be no chance whatsoever that he'll ever get his own firearms back but this episode should mean that he will never be legally permitted to own one again.
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OMG!

One incident, and it is time to panic.

Methinks not, for calm and rational people.
 
digitusmedius said:
Since you like statistics how do you like this one: More people have been shot in movie theaters (and churches) in the past week by your sort than have ever been saved by one.
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stop the silly disinformation. that is a complete falsehood.

why is it that gun banning is invariably a preoccupation of the left? its because the entire purpose of gun restrictions is based on political payback
 
ttwtt78640 said:
It is undeniably true that an armed criminal attack is often successful. The solution is not to help guarantee even more unarmed victims will be available and even less chances for deranged criminal morons to face armed civilian resistance.
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do you HONESTLY think that saving innocent lives or impeding violent criminals is what truly motivates these far left gun banning advocates? if that were TRUE they would actually be preferring new laws that actual target CRIMINALS rather than pedaling crap that only harasses the lawful ownership of firearms
 
ttwtt78640 said:
It is undeniably true that an armed criminal attack is often successful. The solution is not to help guarantee even more unarmed victims will be available and even less chances for deranged criminal morons to face armed civilian resistance.
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You all watch too many action/adventure fantasy movies. It seems you actually believe that's how it is in real life.
 
SMTA said:
OMG!

One incident, and it is time to panic.

Methinks not, for calm and rational people.
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My, my, are you ever late to the party. There are dozens of documented incidents like this every week in this country. I linked to just the most recent week's list way back at the beginning of this thread. Ah, but there's nothing like having no information to sustain a myth.
 
TurtleDude said:
stop the silly disinformation. that is a complete falsehood.

why is it that gun banning is invariably a preoccupation of the left? its because the entire purpose of gun restrictions is based on political payback
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Obviously you don't have any actual data to back your false assertion up. So the accusation of a falsehood is, itself, a falsehood. Why do you lot think all you have to do is say something without evidence to have it accepted?
 
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