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A Heart Warming Story from the US of A.

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"70-Year-Old Vietnam Vet Shoots Two Armed Robbers"

http://freebeacon.com/issues/70-year-old-vietnam-vet-shoots-two-armed-robbers/

Sometimes the good guys win; you won't find this story in the local media.
Posted by Is Mise, Saturday, 11 February 2017 10:24:08 AM
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"Two Feral Black Thugs Attack 70-Year-Old Veteran And Make One ..."

Two men pulled a gun , a Civil war cannon needing a pair of guys to aim it . The injured feral black is charged with murder because the peaceful, tame , white, gun-carrying white, shooting, white man killed one of the 1/2 a gun black men with black hands and faces.
Posted by nicknamenick, Saturday, 11 February 2017 12:02:34 PM
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Now if there was 'gun control' only the bad guys would have guns. Because the bad guys are completely unaffected by gun control. They set out to break the law and violence and weapons are part of their modus operandi.

Where the offenders and the victims are predominately black and gangs and drugs are almost always implicated as well, it is plain that blaming a 'gun culture' is just a smoke screen to avoid any critical examination of social problems that are most likely being made worse, or not being improved, by social policies (and social experiments).

In the interim it is difficult to argue against crime victims being able to defend themselves.
Posted by leoj, Saturday, 11 February 2017 12:24:24 PM
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Dear Is Mise,

Every time I read one of these stories I am just so thankful we do not have a gun culture here in Australia. When was the last time, if ever, we had a teenager involved in 'dozens' of violent robberies involving firearms anywhere in this country. Our strict laws help protect us from not only that but people like you who hold up the US as their version of paradise, one they are keen we march toward.
Posted by SteeleRedux, Saturday, 11 February 2017 12:44:39 PM
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SteeleRedux uses 'gun culture' in a pejorative sense.

But it is immediately obvious form the OP alone that even if the vague 'gun culture' is to be used, there is no one identifiable group but at least two and probably many.

In the OP, there is the respectable licensed citizen who was forced by circumstances beyond his control to legally defended himself.

There is also the criminal who set out to break many laws, with violence and with no concern for the value of human life.

So SteeleRedux, precisely which 'gun culture' are you talking about and aren't you guilty of researcher error, where you emotionally attribute the cause and to accord with your own biases?

Why would you discount the likely SOCIAL root causes of offending and death in the black population, thereby condemning them to more of the same?

Sadly, Obama didn't live up to the promise expected of a black President in the White House. He ducked and so do you.
Posted by leoj, Saturday, 11 February 2017 1:32:37 PM
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Steele,

We do have a gun culture in Australia and it is growing; we are, thanks to John "Bullet Proof Vest" Howard the only country in the world that has a political party that is not only shooter oriented but is mainly made up of shooters/gun owners/collectors and it now has members in three States and is organized in all States.
Of recent years it has broadened its policies and now includes fishing and farming folk.

Our teenage criminals tend to use knives, probably because they know that their victims will be defenceless, the knife being the favourite weapon of choice for armed robbery and murder.

"A spate of random, cruel murders, committed by teens - coincidence or a sign?"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/boys-gone-bad/news-story/828f27e7ea94eb2124c8f09dd324d69d

and from Adelaide
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/the-teenage-killers-whose-crimes-shocked-south-australia/news-story/f2dd9a38d49a1613e117cb5798765cca
Posted by Is Mise, Saturday, 11 February 2017 2:09:05 PM
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