Again with the tackling

Robb Allen points a Simple Minded response to the recent Mass Murder stopped by CCW:

Query: Had this good samaritan tackled the shooter, would he be less of a hero? Had he struck the shooter over the head with a beer bottle, would he be less of a hero? There are plenty of other examples, but the point is the same.

in a post titled Gun Anecdote Proves Nothing

And goes on with

The gun doesn't make the hero. The hero makes the hero. The fact that this person was willing to risk his own welfare to help other people sounds decidedly "liberal". Maybe only liberals should have guns?

He closes with

An anonymous person stopped a man from killing people by shooting him with a concealed weapon. It proves nothing more than on this occasion, one good man stopped one bad man from doing harm. I too applaud the anonymous man, but this doesn't prove that all good people should carry guns.

But, um, I guess I'm unfamiliar with the claim that "all good people should carry guns."

Did I miss something? Has the NRA adopted this? Are the gun bloggers demanding that all good people should carry guns?

I left this comment.

Help: I'm trying to find out who's claiming that "all good people should carry guns."

Please point me to the ones making this claim.

Thanks in advance!

Go see Robb's post for a lot more discussion on this.

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Dfens said:

Welcome to the "green zone" in Washington DC. I guess DC being a "gun free zone" is not working out too well. Who'd have guessed. It works so well everywhere else it's tried.

D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced a military-style checkpoint yesterday to stop cars this weekend in a Northeast Washington neighborhood inundated by gun violence, saying it will help keep criminals out of the area. ... "I knew eventually we'd be a police state," said Wilhelmina Lawson, who has lived in the neighborhood for 20 years. "They don't talk to us, they're not community minded."

One of Lanier's plans, the Safe Homes initiative, has yet to get off the ground because of a community backlash. The plan, announced by Lanier and Fenty at a news conference in March, called for police to go door-to-door in crime-ridden areas and ask residents whether they could go inside and search for guns. - Washington Post

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