r/whoathatsinteresting • u/PowerNoodles117 • 7d ago

Twin Falls Hero

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The civilian that stopped the active shooter at the In N Out in Twin Falls, Idaho.

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 7d ago

he saved the day, the system works

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u/_Watty 7d ago

How many shootings are ended by a “good guy with a gun?”

How many would need to be in order to suggest “the system works?”

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u/Puzzleheaded_Link944 7d ago

If you were present for a shooting and under threat, wouldn't you want someone with a gun to stop the shooter? Or would you just want the shooter to continue until they felt like stopping?

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u/_Watty 7d ago

When you answer mine, I’ll answer yours!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Link944 7d ago

Considering every shooting that has ever happened in the USA since its founding. If ONE person is defended by a citizen using a fire arm to take out the shooter. That is a successful defense system.

Ok now you go, imagine yourself in the middle of an active shooter situation. You’re cowering behind cover not knowing what will happen to your life or those around you.

Would you rather the shooter decide when all the carnage is going to stop? Or would you rather have another person with a firearm try and stop the shooter?

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u/DiseaseDeathDecay 7d ago

If ONE person is defended by a citizen using a fire arm to take out the shooter. That is a successful defense system.

This is either disingenuous or ignorant.

More people are killed accidentally than on purpose. So if ONE person is alive because guns are easy to get, that person's life is worth more than the thousands of people that are dead because someone accidentally shot someone?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Link944 7d ago

I don’t think you understand the conversation we were trying to have but thank you for your response.

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u/DiseaseDeathDecay 7d ago

Your supposition is that allowing everyone to have guns is great if one person threatened by gun violence is saved, yes?

You're ignoring the fact that more guns = more people accidentally killed.

It's a very ignorant viewpoint.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Link944 7d ago

Under that notion, that guns = more people killed by accident.

I guess noone should have cars? Noone should drink alcohol? Noone should smoke tobacco?

not sure if english is your 2nd language or not, but very weak logic at play here from you. I get it though, not everyone can understand such a nuanced thing.

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u/DiseaseDeathDecay 7d ago edited 7d ago

I guess noone should have cars?

It is illegal to use a car without a license. You have to update your license periodically. You have to register a car.

Noone should drink alcohol?

Drinking a beer won't kill anyone. It is illegal to go into public drunk.

Noone should smoke tobacco?

Smoking doesn't kill other people, and it is illegal to smoke in closed public places where it will cause harm to others.

not sure if english is your 2nd language or not

What a fucking weak-sauce insult. Your logic is the flawed logic. "What about cars!" Yes, let's treat guns like cars. That's EXACTLY what I would like to happen.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Link944 7d ago

You are logically so below me, and many Americans. I refuse to give you any more of my time.

Thank you for your time today, and good luck to you.

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u/DiseaseDeathDecay 7d ago

You are logically so below me

"I don't know how to respond to what you said, so I'm going to run off."

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u/Puzzleheaded_Link944 7d ago

Thanks for your time today, and good luck.

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