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defrogITEM: Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez – a concealed-carry permit holder who was charged with misdemeanor reckless use of a handgun after she opened fire on a pair of shoplifters as they fled from a Home Depot store near Detroit – was sentenced to 18 months of probation and stripped of her concealed gun permit.
"I tried to help," she told WJBK television after her sentencing. "And I learned my lesson that I will never help anybody again."
Translation: "Hey I tried to help stop a crime and this is the thanks I get? Well, fine. You don’t want my help? Then I just won’t help anybody else ever. Next time you get shoplifted don't come crying to me. Fuck all y'all."
I like this part:
Yes. We need more people willing to use deadly force to stop shoplifters.
As you can imagine, I’m not impressed. The argument that Duva-Rodriguez may have had good intentions and was aiming for the tires and all that is really beside the point. Whatever her intentions were, the fact remains that she made the snap decision that shoplifting was a crime that warranted whipping out a deadly weapon and firing it. It doesn't matter to me that she was aiming for the tires. No one who sees their gun as an all-purpose tool for stopping criminals should be allowed to carry one around.
This is the big flaw in the Good Guys With Guns meme currently being pushed by the NRA and its supporters – the assumption that Good Guys With Guns will respond appropriately in situations like these or ones like San Bernadino et al. Some will. Many won’t. Which is why the NRA Bullshit Fantasy World where every American is walking around armed is a disaster waiting to happen.
The more people you enable to carry guns (concealed or openly) – and the more you inflate them with Good Guys With Guns rhetoric along with a healthy dose of general xenophobia – the more yr going to see incidents like this. And they’re not all going to end with no one getting hurt.
So if Duva-Rodriguez wants to "go Galt" on this specific issue, that's fine by me.
No help coming,
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"I tried to help," she told WJBK television after her sentencing. "And I learned my lesson that I will never help anybody again."
Translation: "Hey I tried to help stop a crime and this is the thanks I get? Well, fine. You don’t want my help? Then I just won’t help anybody else ever. Next time you get shoplifted don't come crying to me. Fuck all y'all."
I like this part:
Her lawyer was even more defiant. "We need more people like Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez in our society," defense attorney Steven Lyle Schwartz told The Associated Press.
Yes. We need more people willing to use deadly force to stop shoplifters.
As you can imagine, I’m not impressed. The argument that Duva-Rodriguez may have had good intentions and was aiming for the tires and all that is really beside the point. Whatever her intentions were, the fact remains that she made the snap decision that shoplifting was a crime that warranted whipping out a deadly weapon and firing it. It doesn't matter to me that she was aiming for the tires. No one who sees their gun as an all-purpose tool for stopping criminals should be allowed to carry one around.
This is the big flaw in the Good Guys With Guns meme currently being pushed by the NRA and its supporters – the assumption that Good Guys With Guns will respond appropriately in situations like these or ones like San Bernadino et al. Some will. Many won’t. Which is why the NRA Bullshit Fantasy World where every American is walking around armed is a disaster waiting to happen.
The more people you enable to carry guns (concealed or openly) – and the more you inflate them with Good Guys With Guns rhetoric along with a healthy dose of general xenophobia – the more yr going to see incidents like this. And they’re not all going to end with no one getting hurt.
So if Duva-Rodriguez wants to "go Galt" on this specific issue, that's fine by me.
No help coming,
This is dF
