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Isn't this what the NRA wants? Sounds like a good guy with a gun stopped a potential mass shooting.
I know Arturo, he was there to support the protests. He was NOT going to do a mass shooting, as he has taken his gun to at least one other protest with no incident.
I just posted elsewhere, but in short, there's no proof that Gamboa brandished a gun, and I've seen a video which looked like he was pointing the rifle downward. Not saying it can't go the other way once more info comes out, but just like when you shouldn't automatically take the police's word when they shoot someone, we shouldn't take the word of private security.
Pedantic arguments about the word brandish are pointless. He was walking through a crowd with a a rifle and wearing a mask. We don’t like it when the cops do it and shouldn’t tolerate it when anyone else does either. It’s too risky for us all and mass shootings are a real danger here.
Is it pedantic when it means the difference between life and death?
I'm not saying I agree with someone open carrying at a protest. I'm saying if that's all they're doing it's not appropriate to charge them with murder, when if they were only open carrying it would be the security officer who overreacted and shot an innocent bystander to death.
A situation we could have avoided if there were stricter gun controls, but there aren't.
I agree with you, but if you look at the video he's not pointing it down holding it weakly, he's got it pointed slightly below waist level basically ready to fire. It seems like he's not ABOUT to fire, but he's in a combat stance with the rifle and his hand position being ready and shooting in less than a second. If you hadn't been looking at him the whole time I could easily see someone thinking he had just raised his weapon and was about to shoot.