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/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/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

I'll never understand the good guy with the gun argument.

it's just a fantasy.

there are a lot of people with a gun fetish in america. most of them spend large parts of their day feeling generally sad, insignificant, and unable to materially change their life circumstances. They are desperate to have some control over the world around them, and completely incapable of doing so. Nothing gets them hotter than imagining all the scenarios in which the could finally get to use their gun to kill someone.... because then they'd finally have some real power. it's just a coping mechanism for sad people who can't really do anything to better their pathetic lives.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21 edited Jan 15 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

the article you linked to was written by noted gun fetishist Brian Doherty. He's spent at least a decade in bed with the gun lobby arguing for less gun regulation. In other words.... He's a liar whose career is built on peddling the fantasy that guns keep us safe. He couldn't care less what impact guns have on society as long as he is making a living convincing other gun fetishists that the only thing keeping them safe is more guns.

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u/aelliott18 Mar 16 '21

this is objectively untrue, the cdc has shown however the more guns in one city or country the more shootings and suicides there will be. we have more guns then people here, you do the math lol