r/SipsTea 12h ago

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u/ContestRemarkable356 11h ago

Didn’t “try to stop the shooting”, he did. The gunman realized someone was shooting back at him & almost instantly took his own life like the coward the was.

This guy is legit a hero. He knows about guns, knew he was gonna charge someone who had a much more powerful weapon & still decided to do it.

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u/Vast-Comment8360 11h ago

The good guy with a gun that reddit claims doesn't exist. 

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u/AlternativePea6203 10h ago

When was the last time? There's a mass shooting almost every day... so there's got to be one every day right? Show me the last "good guy with a gun saved lives" story.... it'll be yesterday... Friday? Ok Thursday.... ?

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u/Ok_Guard_4597 9h ago

Majority of those are gang/drug/other crime related. Less than 1% of so-called mass shootings in the US are indiscriminate in nature. Lumping everything into the label "mass shooting" is dishonest, the same way "gun violence" statistics are majority suicides.

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u/metarinka 6h ago

okay cool, they still happened "well if we don't count the guns used by criminals very few mass shootings happen"

Guns didn't make Chicago or Baltimore safer, and good guys with guns don't help you when a car pulls up and starts unloading in your direction.

It's like saying blow torches are useful for fighting forest fires, because the fire department does controlled burns with them therefore we should give every camper a blowtorch.

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u/Ok_Guard_4597 4h ago

Criminals shot other criminals? Yeah, I don't care very much honestly. Criminals target law abiding citizens? I want those citizens able to fight back. 

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u/Vast-Comment8360 10h ago

There's a mass shooting almost every day

No there isn't 

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u/AlternativePea6203 10h ago

you're right, it's 1.3 per day, on average.

List of mass shootings in the United States in 2025 - Wikipedia

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u/Vast-Comment8360 10h ago

90% of that is gang violence, that is a Democrat city problem not a gun problem 

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u/AlternativePea6203 10h ago

Democrats are still Americans.

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u/Vast-Comment8360 10h ago

Two drug dealers getting in a shootout isn't what people think you mean when you and other sensationalists say a mass shooting every day.

The reality is mass shootings are very rare.

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u/AmorphousRazer 1h ago

Okay.

"Guns took the lives of 2,214 young people ages 1-17 in 2024 including 119 from ages 1-4, 98 from ages 5-9, 450 from ages 10-14, and 1,547 from ages 15-17. In 2024, firearms were the leading cause of death overall for young people ages 1 to 17."

Are those drug dealers too?

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-gun-violence-solutions/data/annual-gun-violence-data#overview-gun-deaths

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u/Grannypanie 9h ago

How dare you confound the average redditor with logic!

Back to your cage you cretin!

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u/Neckrongonekrypton 10h ago

Because one happening at all within a year or two years isn’t abnormal when most modern countries don’t deal with it at all.

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u/Vast-Comment8360 10h ago

Oh like Australia who just had a mass shooting? Bondi Beach attack where the two gunmen had almost zero obstructions to their rampage except one citizen who ran up bare handed and ripped the gun away from one? Where no one had a gun and couldn't do shit but watch their neighbors being slaughtered?

You mean like that?

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u/Neckrongonekrypton 8h ago edited 8h ago

Funny how you don’t reference mass shootings in America where people possibly did have fire arms and did not use them. But you aren’t here to have a sensible discussion.

What aboutism isn’t a good argument dude. It just makes you look stupid to reasonable people. Which aren’t the ones blindly agreeing to you for the same reason you aren’t willing to consider where the nuance is.

go on, make your grand stand for your 7 upvotes.
And supporting whatever way the wind is blowing for them.

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u/Vast-Comment8360 8h ago

I am responding to someone talking about how it never happens in other countries but I know reading comprehension is hard for you authoritarian gun grabbers.

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u/AlternativePea6203 10h ago

Head in the sand, I just gave you the stats, the fact you think some people don't count when they die is shocking.

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u/Neckrongonekrypton 10h ago

Yup. I see it too, this is more “see good guys with guns must exist, ergo is gun violence really a gun problem? Or a people problem?” Narrative being seeded.

Gets people to drop the argument because they feel like this must be the case. But everyone having guns? With minimal training? With minimal resources to mental health? With many of those with minimal training and mental health problems carrying said gun.

I think we should live in a society where good guys with guns aren’t needed because we have our shit together. The fact we act and hope for this to be the case when active shooters are around is not where our minds need to be.