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Good Guy With a Gun-Myth Debunked

June 13, 2016August 4, 2019 B. John 838 Views 1 Comment Ammosexuals, Good-guy-with-a-gun, Gun Nuts, Gun Rights, NRA, Orlando, Shooter, Shooting

There’s much I can say about the massacre in Orlando, and will write more about that after some reflection, but this one topic was too clear and obvious to require any reflection. It is time to end the NRA claim about how a “good-guy-with-a-gun” will rush in and save the day, if only there’s one around. This NRA meme needs to come off the table. It doesn’t work. If more guns and less gun control make us safer, this America should be the safest place on earth, and we all know it ain’t.

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Shooter

July 7, 2007 B. John 321 Views 0 Comments Action, Antoine Fuqua, Danny Glover, Mark Wahlberg, Mystery, Ned Beatty, Shooter, Thriller

Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world’s great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He’s left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he’s recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.