{"id":128242,"date":"2015-10-06T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T19:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/when-the-last-thing-you-need-is-a-good-guy-with-a-gun.html"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:31:08","slug":"when-the-last-thing-you-need-is-a-good-guy-with-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/when-the-last-thing-you-need-is-a-good-guy-with-a-gun.html","title":{"rendered":"When the last thing you need is "a good guy with a gun""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun use — safe<\/i> and accurate gun use — is hard. Safe and accurate combat \/ conflict reactions are hard. Both take training. In the case of combat and law enforcement personnel, that training is repeated on a regular basis — and even so we still get cases of friendly fire \/ blue-on-blue deaths and injuries, not to mention collateral damage amongst the citizenry when the bullets start flying.<\/p>\n

So why would anyone whose job is not<\/i> to sell more guns and bullets think that putting more guns in the hands of ordinary folk and telling them their patriotic duty is to be "a good guy with a gun" in case a crime or mass shooting is being committed isn't going to frequently end badly? (See, for example, http:\/\/goo.gl\/ucC8nK<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nCombat Vets Destroy the NRA’s Heroic Gunslinger Fantasy<\/a><\/span>
\nThe last thing a chaotic crime scene needs is more untrained civilians carrying guns.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Gun use — safe and accurate gun use — is hard. Safe and accurate combat \/ conflict reactions are hard. Both take training. In the case of combat and law enforcement personnel, that training is repeated on a regular basis — and even so we still get cases of friendly fire \/ blue-on-blue deaths and … Continue reading “When the last thing you need is "a good guy with a gun"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33939,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/bullets-dont-care-if-theyre-fired-by-good-guys-or-bad-guys.html","url_meta":{"origin":128242,"position":0},"title":"Bullets don't care if they're fired by good guys or bad guys","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-May-13 4:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"NRA head Wayne LaPierre insists that\u00a0\"the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.\" \u00a0The problem is, sometimes good guys get \"stopped\" by other good guys with guns. \u00a0Whether it's kids accidentally shooting each other, or innocents caught by \"friendly fire,\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134915,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/needs-gun-control-just-need-duck-cover.html","url_meta":{"origin":128242,"position":1},"title":"Who needs gun control? 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