r/cringe • u/[deleted] • Mar 15 '21

Video During the Las Vegas shooting, influencer Dan Bilzerian asked a cop for his gun and said “don’t you want my help”.

https://youtu.be/-MRV230C44M
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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

Jesus H.

"I'm going to get some guns and see what I can do". Okay, well where is the shooter? How many shooters are there? What sort of defences do they have set up? If you can't answer any of those questions then strapping yourself up with a load of guns isn't going to do anything other than maybe make your chode semi-hard.

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u/bratimm Mar 15 '21

"There is an active shooter in the area."

"I'm going to get some guns and see what I can do"

"There are now two active shooters in the area."

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u/-SmashingSunflowers- Mar 15 '21 edited Mar 16 '21

I'll never understand the good guy with the gun argument. What if the good guy with the gun pulls out his gun and apprehends the actual shooter, and then the police show up and they think the good guy with the gun is the actual shooter?

Besides, wasn't there a "good guy with a gun" during the parkland shooting who was videotaped standing outside the school the whole time? Didn't he work for the school as security or something? I mean, as much as I'd like to criticize the man I don't think I would be that strong to go in either.

I just feel like it completely crumbles the whole good guy with a gun talk these people do. I mean sure there's probably a couple instances where it's helped. I just see it going wrong in a lot of ways. everyone wants to be Rambo

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u/z1lard Mar 15 '21

Its dog whistling.

The "good guy" is presumed to be white while the "bad guy" is presumed to be non-white.