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The police covered up killing this man for as long as they could. If the shooter doesn’t kill you, the police will.
#good guy with a gun#John Hurley#police#cover up#police brutality#gun violence#mass shooting#march for our lives#USA#gun safety#gun control#this is america#mass incarceration#news#why i can never call the cops#police abolition#Colorado#cops#lie
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#us politics#indiana mall shooting#indiana#2022#gun control#gun violence#gun rights#mass shooters#mass shootings#2nd amendment#memes#good guy with a gun#republicans be like#conservatives be like#republicans#conservatives#gop#conservative salt mine#republican salt mine
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Here's why the "good guy with a gun" argument is dogshit:
A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, on Tuesday declined to indict a man who allegedly killed 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez while shooting at an armed robber in February, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said.
"I just want to tell the family how saddened we are," Ogg said. "We don't have the luxury of disagreeing with the jury's verdict, with the grand jury's determination. But we have the ability to move forward and to catch the person who they've indicated is criminally responsible."
The killing happened February 14 at about 9:30 p.m. when Tony Earls and his wife drove to a drive-thru ATM to deposit some cash and a check, according to the district attorney's office. A man then ran up and put a gun in the wife's face and demanded their money, car keys and her wallet, the prosecutor's office said.
The couple initially complied with the robber, handing over the check, cash and wallet, before the robber started to run away, the office said. Earls, who stepped out of the vehicle, said he heard gunshots and believed he was being shot at, so he shot at the robber, the office said.
However, he ended up striking a truck that happened to be driving by at the same time, killing 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez in the backseat, the district attorney's office said.
The girl's parents, Armando and Gwen Alvarez, told CNN affiliate KHOU in February that the family was driving to a Houston restaurant for Valentine's Day dinner when Arlene was shot in the head.
"I immediately stopped, pulled her out of the vehicle," Armando Alvarez said. "I hope nobody ever has to go through this."
The robbery suspect, who remains at large, will face felony murder charges in the killing, Ogg said. A $30,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his capture.
"We're going to focus on catching the robbery suspect who started this chain of events," she said. "I know we can find this killer with your help. Someone knows who he is."
Arlene's aunt, April Aguirre, lamented the lack of charges at a joint news conference with Ogg on Tuesday.
"I wish it was Tony Earls who was found guilty, but I know that the decision is final with the grand jury," she said. "I pray that we can find this person and bring him to justice, because Arlene didn't want to die. She didn't want to die on a Monday night, on her way to dinner."
She called on the public to turn in the robbery suspect.
"I want somebody held accountable, because this family shouldn't continue to suffer like this. This is unexplainable pain," she said. "Gwen and Armando and the rest of the Alvarez family deserves to have their little girl. She didn't deserve this ending."
CNN has reached out to Earls' attorneys Brennen Dunn and Myrecia Donaldson for comment.
#us politics#news#gun violence#gun rights#gun control#cnn#good guy with a gun#2022#texas#Kim Ogg#Arlene Alvarez#Tony Earls#arrest Tony Earls#Armando Alvarez#Gwen Alvarez#khou#April Aguirre#2nd amendment
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It is uncommon for mass shootings to be stopped by a good guy with a gun.
From 2000 to 2021, fewer than 3% of 433 active attacks in the U.S. ended with a civilian firing back, according to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University. The researchers define the attacks as one or more people targeting multiple people.
It was far more common for police or unarmed bystanders to subdue the attacker or for police to kill the person, according to the center’s national data, which were recently cited by The New York Times.
In a quarter of the shootings, the attacker stopped by leaving the area, similar to what happened during the July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois, where seven people were killed.
“There’s been this statement: ‘The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.’ That’s factually inaccurate because of the word ‘only,’” said Adam Lankford, a criminal justice expert at the University of Alabama who has written books and research papers about mass shootings.
Nonetheless, gun-rights advocates, including the National Rifle Association, used that phrase on social media to draw attention to what happened in Indiana.
Since July 1, Indiana has allowed anyone 18 or older to carry a handgun in public, though private property owners can prohibit firearms. The Greenwood mall has a ban on weapons, according to its conduct code. Gun Owners of America hopes the mall reconsiders, saying gun-free zones create a false sense of security.
The Greenwood Park Mall, which is owned by Simon Property Group, didn’t reply to a request for comment but released a statement commending first responders and the “heroic actions of the good Samaritan who stopped the suspect.”
Lankford believes it would be a mistake to think armed civilians can be relied upon to regularly stop mass shootings.
“While it’s certainly a good thing in this mall shooting that someone was able to stop it before it went any further, let’s not think we can substitute that outcome in all past and future incidents,” Lankford said. “If everyone’s carrying a firearm, the risk that something bad happens just gets much larger.”
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CNN: Live updates: Chiefs Super Bowl rally shooting leaves one dead and multiple injured
We cannot have anything nice without guns ruining it.
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#uvalde#defund the police#Oink Oink#eat more bacon#good guy with a gun#hypocrisy#USAUSAUSA#Miss Teen Usa
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Brilliant analysis on last week's luxury condo shooting in Las Vegas where yet another good guy with a gun stopped a potential mass shooter...(view thread on Twitter)
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Richard Scarry and the School Shooting.
#richard scarry#School shootings#cartoons#mass shootings#NRA#LGBTQ#cartoon strip#thoughts and prayers#critical race theory#Dont say gay#Woke#good guy with a gun#bulletproof backpack#second amendment
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Cody in TBB
Something I love about the Clones is the message that your friend with a gun, yeah that one in the Forces or the Police, they’re not immune to brainwashing. They were these freedom fighters, good guy soldiers, good guys with guns, and then one day, they turned and literally became the thing they were trying to stop.
I feel like this message is getting lost a little bit however, because there’s a current narrative of, “the clones turned bad, they turned on us and became the bad guys and we can’t trust them! Not the named ones that we got to know though, they’re still good, just a little confused, but don’t worry kids they’re still good.”
Obviously teach kids that people deserve second chances and sometimes people do bad things out of circumstance and not coz they want to, but please show the other side of the coin too. Show the clones that we know and love, but they’re different now and we have to let them go.
But don’t kill them all off, show us the aftermath of these not good clones. They did it with Crosshair, but he was already the token ‘mean friend’, and no one was that shocked or saddened by his turn. I want to see them do it with a Clone that we love, was friends with the jedi and was always a ‘good guy’. I think they should do it with Cody.
I know it’s just a Star Wars cartoon and it’s not that deep, but I think it’s important to show that that friend you thought you could trust, might have different opinions and not be there when you thought they would back you. Anyone can be corrupted or just bury their head in the sand when things get bad and important votes are taking place. I just think perfect little soldier Cody who always follows orders and rarely deviates from the plan is a good character to do this with.
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This guy didn't call for backup and stand around twiddling his thumbs for an hour, he reacted and stopped the shooter. THIS is why gun owners train, carry, and defend.
#gun owners#2nd amendment#guns#second amendment#good guy with a gun#mass shooting#mall shooting#Indiana shooting
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#us politics#2022#twitter#tweet#republicans be like#conservatives be like#libertarians be like#good guy with a gun#gun violence#gun control#dui#impaired driving#vaush#@vaushv#las vegas#Nevada#ktla
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It’s the fact that there’s 400 of them.
Not one of them stop the gunman as children were getting shot and killed
I can't get over that number.
400.
four. Freaking. Hundred.
They deserve to hear the children screaming everywhere they go
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#The good guy with a gun is a myth.#good guy with a gun#it’s a lie#fucking cowards#cowards#uvalde shooting#all cops are bastards#what the actual fuck#tw school shooting#fuck the police
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CNN: Woman begs for help as man shoots her over mistaken scam concerns
More information is going to come out about this tragedy, but I can guarantee that the outcome would have been different if a gun hadn't been introduced.
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Ashli Babbitt was just another victim of Donald Trump. He never called her family, didn't pay for her funeral, and hasn't lost a single night's sleep over her death. As for the shooter. He did what every single Magat says they will do if someone breaks into their house.
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