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d0ct0r0nline , 3 months ago

Or I’ll even take it a different direction. Say the janitor is single, lives a minimalistic lifestyle, and gives money to anti-war causes or politicians actively trying to regulate these weapons.

Can we quantify morality? Is there enough of an ethical net gain here to absolve them?

d0ct0r0nline , 3 months ago

We were never the customer, we were always the product.

d0ct0r0nline , 3 months ago

The whole right wing has a perpetual sedition boner.

d0ct0r0nline , 4 months ago

Was the woman with a rifle they shot at, subsequently hitting her son, also an off-duty cop? Maybe she was a relevant gun owner.

d0ct0r0nline , 4 months ago

Am I saying anything about the general population’s right to own a gun? Am I even implying anything about it? No. Nor am I equating the shooter to the “good guy with a gun”, or saying that anybody other than the cops directly had anything to do with the child being shot.

What I am pointing out though is that either this woman came into legal and rightful possession of a gun, or otherwise obtained it illegally, both of which are relevant to a conversation on gun control.

d0ct0r0nline , 4 months ago

If the cops directly shot the child without there being the presence of a firearm near the child, then that would be a fairly different conversation. And yeah, the parent comment may have assumed the “good guy with the gun” was not a cop, but instead a citizen. However, with these being cops, and their decision to shoot spawning from a citizen with a firearm who had intent to use that firearm to harm innocent people, it is still valid for there to be a gun control debate, because if you take her gun out of the equation, there likely was not going to be a police initiated shooting in this situation.

d0ct0r0nline , 4 months ago

Joke’s on them: can’t get blood from a turnip, which is what I figure I’ll be reincarnated as with my Karma.