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goobster  ·  1367 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Life comes at you fast

The people passing by were not very peaceful in the clip I saw... and they weren't passing by... they were turning around and verbally accosting the gun-wielding maniacs, going back against the flow of the parade/march to further engage with the armed lunatics.

It's the thing about guns. They often don't calm situations down; they raise the stakes and entrench the two sides, who are then further incentivized to react.

Rule #1 of owning a gun is never draw it unless you intent to shoot it.

Rule #2 of owning a gun is to shoot to kill, because you only get one shot, and once a gun goes off everything goes out the window.

Brandishing a weapon poorly in some sort of show of fucked up machismo is moronic.

In the full video, she has her finger on the trigger the whole time, and passes behind her husband several times... with the muzzle pointing directly into his back and the back of his head.

She's a fucking menace.