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Julián Castro: 'The Myth Of a Good Guy With a Gun Has Been Totally Shattered'
townhall.com ^ | 10/2/2019 | Julio Rosas

Posted on 10/03/2019 8:58:21 AM PDT by rktman

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To: rktman

He’s promoting a logical fallacy.

Castro’s argument is that because it doesn’t work all the time, it doesn’t work at all.

This is ridiculous. Do seat belts or air bags work all the time? No, but they still save thousands of lives.


21 posted on 10/03/2019 9:18:33 AM PDT by 5by5 (ad)
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To: DoodleDawg

Some probably were - but wculd have faced legal jeopardy if they had pulled out their weapon - they probably instead headed for the exits.


22 posted on 10/03/2019 9:18:34 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: rktman

“...that shooter knew he was walking into a place where a lot of people were carrying...”

Really, Julian? And how exactly do you know that? Oh - like most Democrats, you have to lie in order to try to convince people to think (I use the term loosely in your case) like you. Unreal.


23 posted on 10/03/2019 9:18:36 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives numerous, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Harpotoo

Yup. Too many dead, bad-guy shooters to come to that ridiculous conclusion. Rats are just plain evil and stupid.


24 posted on 10/03/2019 9:19:15 AM PDT by RatRipper
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To: rockinqsranch

Castro doesn’t mean anything he says.

It’s nothing more then a con to get Los Gringos to disarm.

Have we seen him crying crocodile tears at the border for all the murders by Los Zetas?

Nah. That’s just bidness as usual for his buddies the narcotrafficantes.

He’s on their side. He just wants the Americans disarmed so they can’t resist. Using the idiot kid’s murder rampage as an excuse is the kind of cynical response we should expect from him.


25 posted on 10/03/2019 9:19:31 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: DoodleDawg

And you know this for a fact or just shooting from the hip again.


26 posted on 10/03/2019 9:19:37 AM PDT by Dartoid
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To: rktman

Castro lies just like all Castros and democrats.

5.56mm


27 posted on 10/03/2019 9:20:56 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: rktman
the idea of a good guy with a gun being a solution to shootings has been "shattered.

Then why do cops have guns? Soldiers? Secret service agents?

28 posted on 10/03/2019 9:21:27 AM PDT by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: Dartoid
And you know this for a fact or just shooting from the hip again.

Just applying common sense.

29 posted on 10/03/2019 9:23:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: rktman

Ok, so we don’t have to put restrictions or excise taxes on tobacco because we found an elderly smoker who did not die of a smoking related illness.

The myth of lung cancer totally shattered.


30 posted on 10/03/2019 9:25:06 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: rktman

FU, Castro, you clueless Beaner. And your La Raza mama, too! Castro doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about.


31 posted on 10/03/2019 9:33:51 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban liberals, NOT guns.)
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To: rktman

He has no recollection of the Sutherland Springs mass shooting less than two years ago? The shooter did not stop killing people until a neighboring resident returned fire with his own AR-15, forcing the shooter to flee.


32 posted on 10/03/2019 9:52:21 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: Joe Brower
A little off subject, perhaps, but speaking of dream worlds, there was a science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper that I read as a boy called Lone Star Planet.

I don't remember the plot much, but one thing that stuck in my mind was that the law was that politicians could be killed by political opponents legally.

It was an interesting thesis. Of course, the politicians could shoot back.

33 posted on 10/03/2019 10:07:29 AM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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Castro comments BUMP!


34 posted on 10/03/2019 10:23:59 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: rktman

Any communist gerbil with this point of view wants those of us who have used our weapons to defend our families dead.

In 1996, two very bad men followed my daughters home from a teenaged gathering at Applebee’s. Their mother was working overnight, so no car in the driveway. They came in through my bathroom window and met me armed with a .357 with hollow points. The only reason I didn’t splatter them and let them retreat was that my daughters were behind me. My oldest had seen them looking in her window, and calmly walked into my room to tell me

This asshole wants a different ending and I hope he fries in Hell.


35 posted on 10/03/2019 10:40:58 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: dirtboy
Except the El Paso Walmart was not a typical stand-alone store, it was part of a Simon Properties Mall, and Simon Properties does not allow carry of any kind.

My understanding is that the mall is infested with Mexicans who come across the border to shop there. That would be a bunch of unarmed people.

Probably a primary reason why the perp chose that store.

'Zactly.

36 posted on 10/03/2019 11:28:17 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: chesley
I think it called "dueling" < g!>

And yes, that would certainly filter out about 98% of the creatures that currently inhabit the swamp.

Maybe it should make a comeback.

37 posted on 10/03/2019 12:04:42 PM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Joe Brower
Nah, this was assassination
38 posted on 10/03/2019 12:08:43 PM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: DoodleDawg
And if you really think that nobody was carrying in that mall then you're naïve. It was Texas after all.

You got that right. I carry concealed everywhere I go, and they can stick their little "No Guns" signs where the sun don't shine.

I'll defend me and mine, and anyone else who's in danger in the immediate area - but hunting down a loco-weed with a weapon is the cop's job, not mine - and those same cops would prolly shoot me if they found me armed, standing over a downed perp anyway.

39 posted on 10/03/2019 12:48:18 PM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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