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2nd Bomber in Custody
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<blockquote data-quote="VanC" data-source="post: 1011379" data-attributes="member: 3355"><p>I'm wondering how this whole thing will play out in the gun control debate. I can see the anti-gun people pointing to this and saying "See!! This whole thing was handled by the proper authorities. Citizens don't need guns."</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, this happened in an area where the citizens are strongly discouraged, through laws and public sentiment, from owning guns to protect themselves. Maybe the bombers chose their target for this reason, maybe not. I don't know. But I have to wonder how many of those people hunkered down in their homes, with a desperate, wounded, known killer in the neighborhood, were thinking to themselves "Dam, I wish I had a gun right now." If that guy had decided to come into someone's home to take hostages, or just randomly kill more Americans, most of those people were powerless to stop him. That won't be lost on some folks.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if it applis in this case, but I don't think it's a coincidence that all these shootings we've seen recently happened in so-called "gun free zones".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VanC, post: 1011379, member: 3355"] I'm wondering how this whole thing will play out in the gun control debate. I can see the anti-gun people pointing to this and saying "See!! This whole thing was handled by the proper authorities. Citizens don't need guns." On the other hand, this happened in an area where the citizens are strongly discouraged, through laws and public sentiment, from owning guns to protect themselves. Maybe the bombers chose their target for this reason, maybe not. I don't know. But I have to wonder how many of those people hunkered down in their homes, with a desperate, wounded, known killer in the neighborhood, were thinking to themselves "Dam, I wish I had a gun right now." If that guy had decided to come into someone's home to take hostages, or just randomly kill more Americans, most of those people were powerless to stop him. That won't be lost on some folks. I don't know if it applis in this case, but I don't think it's a coincidence that all these shootings we've seen recently happened in so-called "gun free zones". [/QUOTE]
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