So the setup was that there was an altercation at a Alabama shopping mall during Black Friday shopping, this resulted in an 18 year old being shot twice in the stomach and a 12 year old girl who was a bystander being shot once.
An off duty cop who was working security spotted a 21-year old black guy with a gun fleeing the area, confronted him, and then shot an killed him.
The problem is that, similar to the Security officer who was killed recently, Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. was not the actual shooter, but rather appears to have been trying to do the "right thing."
I have said this before, and I'm going to say it again. Drawing a weapon and going looking for, or even running from, a actual gunman is stupid, and this whole "good guy with a gun" will get people killed, and is getting people killed. Especially if you are Black!
There is no way that the police can determine if you are a shooter or a good guy when they have an active shooter call, and in many cases we are seeing that they often don't ask a lot of questions of people with drawn weapons in these scenarios. Not only that, if there are other "Good Guys with guns" there is no way for you to identify them as non-active shooters, or for them to identify you as such. The only people capable of identifying others as non-shooters are the shooters themselves, and they are likely to see "good guys" with a gun as a threat and so fire on them. In the end all that pulling a gun does in these situations is make yourself a target, for the Shooter(s), for the Police, and finally for other "Good Guys with a Gun." Pulling out your gun then is just plain stupid.
Sure, if you can find a place to barricade yourself in and wait, then having a gun might help should the shooter try and bust their way in, but drawing it and running around the place, that's an insane thing to do, and will get you killed, regardless of what the NRA says.
An off duty cop who was working security spotted a 21-year old black guy with a gun fleeing the area, confronted him, and then shot an killed him.
The problem is that, similar to the Security officer who was killed recently, Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. was not the actual shooter, but rather appears to have been trying to do the "right thing."
I have said this before, and I'm going to say it again. Drawing a weapon and going looking for, or even running from, a actual gunman is stupid, and this whole "good guy with a gun" will get people killed, and is getting people killed. Especially if you are Black!
There is no way that the police can determine if you are a shooter or a good guy when they have an active shooter call, and in many cases we are seeing that they often don't ask a lot of questions of people with drawn weapons in these scenarios. Not only that, if there are other "Good Guys with guns" there is no way for you to identify them as non-active shooters, or for them to identify you as such. The only people capable of identifying others as non-shooters are the shooters themselves, and they are likely to see "good guys" with a gun as a threat and so fire on them. In the end all that pulling a gun does in these situations is make yourself a target, for the Shooter(s), for the Police, and finally for other "Good Guys with a Gun." Pulling out your gun then is just plain stupid.
Sure, if you can find a place to barricade yourself in and wait, then having a gun might help should the shooter try and bust their way in, but drawing it and running around the place, that's an insane thing to do, and will get you killed, regardless of what the NRA says.
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