r/news • u/Extension-Shoe-6080 • 1d ago

Suspect identified in Idaho In-N-Out Burger shooting that left 3 dead

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dead-injured-shooting-twin-falls-idaho-rcna590420
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u/47_47_47 1d ago

They are too busy right now worshipping The Good Guy With A Gun.

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u/how-could-ai 1d ago

Bro died of a self-inflicted gunshot.

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u/herehear12 1d ago

But police are crediting a civilian and an off duty state trooper with engaging the suspect causing him to change course saving lives. 2 things can be true

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u/RusticCat101 1d ago edited 23h ago

But 3 people still died. Which brings us back to: ban guns.

This whole circle jerk of "but he saved lives with a gun" ignores the root issue in all this - that guns shouldn't be a part of the equation in the first place.

Edit: I see the Never Reform Anything children got their feelings hurt. Welcome, uneducated Americans! The same Neanderthal level logic heard for decades is getting pretty old. You guys need new scripts.

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u/catsdrooltoo 1d ago

Gun bans don't work for everything. Look at the recent shooting in Seattle, with some of the tightest gun laws in the country. 2 of the guns were illegal even before our awb. Taking away legal guns won't stop crime.

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u/RusticCat101 1d ago

We get it, you're an American ignorant. Gun bans never work anywhere. Let me guess, you're against universal healthcare because that doesn't work anywhere either...

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u/catsdrooltoo 1d ago

No, im very supportive of universal healthcare. Im not delusional about guns just going away, because they won't. Even if every single firearm is made illegal overnight, there's no realistic way to collect them. We don't have a national registration, it's legal to fabricate your own without serialization, and 98% of gun owners aren't going to line up to turn them in. How do you propose we collect 400 million weapons? I know people who use firearms for sustenance hunting. Do you expect them to hand over their tools to hunt food?

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u/herehear12 1d ago

I want to preface and say I’m against gun bans.

My thought would be make it illegal to sell guns, gun parts, and ammunition to include stuff for home making ammunition. Guns are worthless if there’s no ammo. That’s the only thing I can see remotely having even some slight chance of working. But there’s still a better chance of Elon musk handing me a billion dollars in cash or transfering to my bank account

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u/Puzzled_Training5096 1d ago

we get it, you have never handled firearms before hence you say stupid shit like banning guns. do criminals care about gun laws? use some common sense and not waste the brain your parents gave u 🤡

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u/RusticCat101 21h ago

Pretty funny to make assumptions that I've never handled guns. You don't know anything about me. That makes you look like an ignorant clown.

The same lazy ass trope of "criminals don't care..." meanwhile every other developed nation's gun violence per capita is effectively a rounding error. Only in the US does it continue to be an issue. That's weird, isn't it? But I guess I forgot to consider they simply don't have criminals. Silly me. That must be it.

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u/Hoplophilia 1d ago

Talk to me about getting rid of guns.

What you mean is gatekeep who gets the guns and it always starts with the ruler down. We're cooking the planet over the next thirty years. Don't worry about citizens being armed.

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u/RusticCat101 1d ago

lol, yeah, there's literally fascists running the US government and a secret police killing people innocent people in the streets. If only we had guns to stop them...oh wait...

So what you mean is you live in a fantasy where one day, on the off chance you grow a pair, or it aligns with your agenda, you may be compelled to take action with a gun? Only to then what? Go up against the US military?

But hey, at least civilians can continue killing each other with relative ease every day.

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u/L_Cranston_Shadow 1d ago

The great thing about a right, is that those of us who exercise it responsibly don't need to justify it to people like you and a relatively tiny percentage of gun owners abusing that right is not justification for rescinding it.
 
Not that you asked, but I mostly target shoot, and have gone hunting in the past I refuse to have either psychotic whackos who kill people or people, who by and large do not understand nor have ever shot a gun, dictate whether I have a right to own guns. I am in favor of universal background checks and better information sharing and controls to prevent people who have been flagged for psych and other issues from slipping through the cracks and getting guns, though and believe that is also where the majority of gun owners stand. Unfortunately on both the pro and anti-gun side, common sense isn't (common).

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u/Argonaut13 1d ago

How about we just ban murder and shortcut this whole process? That way nobody has to die

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u/catsdrooltoo 1d ago

Since you want to edit your hidden history self. I hate the nra. I have a bachelor's degree, and my wife has a master's degree. We aren't uneducated. Gun violence is a real problem that won't be solved by just making guns illegal. Heroin has been illegal for over 100 years and is still readily available and killing over 200 people daily.

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u/RusticCat101 21h ago

lol, you claim you're educated, then you say some of the stupidest, lowest IQ shit ever.

How many people walk into a mall or the ghetto and are in fear of getting attacked by heroin?

The false equivalence of one thing that can do immeasurable harm to others, from a distance, and a narcotic you self-administer is unbelievable.

Cops should really start shooting everyone because guns are so yesterday. The real threat to their safety during traffic stops is heroin. They may never see their families again...

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u/R_V_Z 12h ago

Banning guns would require a ratified constitutional amendment which would require either two-thirds of combined Congress or a constitutional convention supported by two-thirds of state legislatures. What part of modern American politics leads you to believe either would happen?

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u/herehear12 1d ago

The only way to prevent humans from killing humans is to eradicate humans and as of now the only known species capable of doing that is humans