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By Associated Press GREENWOOD, Ind©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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EvilBuddha
The good guy with the gun saves the day. For sure the 3 victims were not armed.
Blacklabel
article headline says “witness” to avoid a “good guy with a gun” type headline.
second time in two days an armed customer took out a mass shooter.
Yrral
In Ulvade,they say it was about 400 cop on scene of the school shooting Google Ulvade Shooting
purple_depressed_bacon
Mmm, sure but will the higher ups actually get their acts together to address this epidemic? Doubtful. The NRA is going to use the fact that a witness shot the shooter and spin it to say, "look! Guns protect people!"
RIP to the victims and condolences to the families.
bass4funk
But that the crime even happened was a test to Japan’s historical unblemished image on having one of the safest societies on the planet because with all the restrictions it should not have happened and yet, it did. What happened Ulvade should also never have happened. Someone needs to lose their job and possible be brought up on charges.
jeancolmar
Here is the answer to NRA garbage about "the good guy with a gun." The reason we have the "bad guy with a gun" appear frequently and lethally in our lives is because of loose or non-existence gun laws. If the U.S. had strict gun laws you would not need a "good guy with a gun."
Rodney
which obviously the killer was doing, under his rights. Great law…not.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
Kudos to the man that saved innocent lives by stopping the terrorist.
painkiller
This is why we don't want criminals to have weapons; let the good guys carry:
an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said.
wallace
Japan does not have an unblemished image of gun homicides. Just when compared to America, they are almost zero. Rarely involve civilians usually gangsters.
theFu
Malls are private property and everyone I've been to has a no firearms allowed rule, so this "witness" was violating mall rules and can be charged.
Make more gun laws when the current ones aren't being enforced won't change anything. There are 3 missing things in current gun laws which aren't enforced,
the gun show loophole to avoid background check needs to be closed, same for private citizen to private citizen sales. For a licensed intermediary to be involved who is required to perform the required background checks.
red flag laws need to be more aggressively followed (and implemented nation wide)
mandated, real, gun safe and trigger locks for all firearms with spot inspections need to be implemented nationwide.These things are possible. Collecting all the firearms is not possible and has ZERO chance of becoming law. So rather than complain, Congress and the President need to actually DO SOMETHING that helps and doesn't get found unconstitutional by SCOTUS.
Fighto!
Yet another mass shooting in the USA - the most dangerous "developed" nation on earth. RIP to the 3 innocent victims.
These things are happening basically every day in the gun-obsessed USA now. Fortunately in places like Japan - due to strict gun laws - these mass shootings happen only once in a blue moon.
Blacklabel
Killers don’t follow “laws”
so thank God the law allowed the other person who shot him to have a gun.
Blacklabel
Yesterday too:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/missouri/articles/2022-07-17/convenience-store-customer-kills-armed-robber-in-missouri
Blacklabel
That math sounds like how Biden calculates that gas prices are “down” and that the inflation numbers were “outdated” the second they were released.
in real word, 2 good guys with guns saved multiple lives in 2 days. Allowed by being in red states where they can carry guns.
Multiple California 7-11? All those people dead.
Strangerland
Guns don't kill Americans, Americans kill Americans.
And many Americans think it's not a good idea to restrict those people from getting guns.
Why is it Americans are such a murderous people? It's clearly not a gun problem, yet other countries have nothing like the murder rates America does. Why are Americans such bloodthirsty killers?
wallace
Who would ever think?
painkiller
StrangerlandToday 01:10 pm JST
Compared to who? What is it like in your home country HK?
Random
The duration of a mass shooting always depends on the arrival of the second gun.
bass4funk
That is usually the case with most countries.
The law-abiding citizens no they shouldn't.
We are also the kindest people, no other country would take in millions without starting a civil war. We cloth, feed and give shelter to these people, even the illegals (which I don't support but still)
painkiller
I am kind if surprised at how few a number of firearms related homicides occur in the US considering the number of firearms, and demographics of the country as a whole.
The US isn't even in the top 25 for gun related homicides per 100 thousand people.
Something is working correctly in the US.
That's why a headline article like this portrays a rare event, and the emphasis is on the benefits of allowing law abiding citizens to practice a constitutionally protected right--carrying a firearm.
wallace
Except in the G7. All the countries above American gun homicides are like Mexico, Columbia, and third-world murderous countries. Nothing to boast about.
lincolnman
Welcome to Red State America....
Where buying a gun us easier than buying a pack of cigarettes...
Where Drivers Ed is mandatory to operate a car but Firearms Ed is optional to carry a gun...
And where mass shootings are an everyday occurrence...
Utter craziness...
bass4funk
Bingo!
The Avenger
Just another day in the USA.
That an armed civilian shot the shooter will be a cue for the gun addicted to say "see, if everyone was armed this would have been over quickly"
They never want to look at the problem of easy access to firearms, and deranged individuals having easy access to them.
wallace
https://www.healthdata.org/acting-data/gun-violence-united-states-outlier
plasticmonkey
"An FBI analysis of 160 active shooter incidents from 2000–2013 found that active shooter incidents were rarely stopped by armed individuals who were not law enforcement returning fire. In fact, four times as many shootings were stopped by unarmed civilians restraining the shooter."
"No credible statistical evidence exists to show that permissive concealed carry laws reduce crime. Instead, the evidence suggests that laws that make it easier for more people to carry guns in public may actually increase the frequency of some types of violent crime, including gun homicides."
"States with higher rates of gun ownership have higher rates of gun death, confirming the commonsense conclusion that more guns create more opportunities for injury and death, not fewer."
https://giffords.org/blog/2020/10/the-good-guy-with-a-gun-myth/
Pretty obvious, really, unless you're in thrall to the faux masculinity of owning a high-powered assault rifle, or "owning the libs".