{"id":33939,"date":"2013-05-20T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T22:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/bullets-dont-care-if-theyre-fired-by-good-guys-or-bad-guys.html"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:31:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:31:20","slug":"bullets-dont-care-if-theyre-fired-by-good-guys-or-bad-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/bullets-dont-care-if-theyre-fired-by-good-guys-or-bad-guys.html","title":{"rendered":"Bullets don't care if they're fired by good guys or bad guys"},"content":{"rendered":"
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," guns can kill you just as dead if shot by a cop or a 5-year-old as by a thug or\u00a0homicidal\u00a0maniac.<\/p>\n

Now that doesn't necessarily mean that guns should be banned. \u00a0Risk assessment is critical in this kind of public policy, and anecdotes about innocents being shot are no less and more anecdotes about innocents using a gun to avoid being murdered or raped. \u00a0<\/p>\n

But the willful ignoring of the dangers of firearms, and the idea that if we just give everyone guns and make sure they are trained that everyone will be safe is … crazy.<\/p><\/div>\n

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College Student Accidentally Shot By Good Guy With A Gun<\/a>
\n Late last week, 21 year old Hofstra University student Andrea Rebello was shot and killed during an attempted robbery in a group house near the Uniondale, New York campus. But the initial assumption \u2014 that Rebello was murdered by the suspected robber Dalton Smith during a shoot-out with police \u2014 now appears to be wrong. […]\n <\/p>\n

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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," guns can kill you just … Continue reading “Bullets don't care if they're fired by good guys or bad guys”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-33939","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":31920,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/27\/guns-kill-people.html","url_meta":{"origin":33939,"position":0},"title":"Guns kill people","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Dec-12 10:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, no, of course they don't. 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