Man arrested for pointing gun at 6-year-old boy's head over Halloween goody bag

This is why the “good guy with the gun” BS needs to die. The real world isn’t a movie: there are no designated heroes and villains. Everyone’s a good guy in their own mind until they point a gun at a 6 year old.

I've always wondered how people thought the "good guy with a gun" would work in a chaotic real world situation. Suppose you're armed and there's a mass shooting event. You pull out your gun and keep a look out for the shooter as you hear gunfire getting closer. Then you spot a guy holding a gun. You quickly take aim and fire...
... And hit another "good guy with a gun" who was trying to take out the mass shooter the same as you.
Oh, but then you get shot by a third "good guy with a gun" who thought YOU were the mass shooter.
Arming everyone and telling them to be "good guys with guns" just seems, at best, like it would lead to MORE injuries and deaths.
- Or, as has actually happened before, a good guy with a gun kills the bad guy and then gets shot by the cops who arrive thinking the guy with the gun is the bad guy:
  https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/560798-police-chief-hails-good-guy-with-a-gun-after-officer-kills/
- It’s deflective rhetoric so they don’t have to address the truth:
  We don’t know who is going to make a bad decision with their gun until after they do it.
- Yeah, my coworkers said how great it would have been after the Colorado movie theater shooting (Batman movie) if everyone was armed. They just knew the original shooter would have been killed right away.
  So,
  Dark theater
  Smoke filled (by shooter)
  Bullets suddenly flying
  Who in their right mind thinks basically everyone wouldn't have been mowed down in a hail of gun fire?
- It's either that, or the people with guns are afraid to use them when the time comes and they hesitate too long to do any good.
- I've always wondered how people thought the "good guy with a gun" would work in a chaotic real world situation.
  They picture it pretty much how it went down here:
  
  Personally, I would just prefer to have a pistol in hand if I ended up in the last part of 'run, hide, fight'.
- Well if there is one thing a chaotic and violent situation needs is more guns.
"There are no good guys with guns."
also
"Cops are useless."
You see, this is why nobody takes sentiments like yours seriously. If you can't defend yourself, and don't have others to protect you, then you'll always be at the mercy of whoever is the strongest.
Something tells me all the 'guns and cops are bad' people don't know how to fight.
- I've been looking at your other comments and have some things to say.
  Clearly your your out of your mind defending cops on Lemmy.world, for real when is calling the cops ever not put you the caller in a new type of danger? Fools with guns is bad regardless of the context and I for one cannot trust someone I have never met, especially the armed paramilitary we call police here in America.
  Nice 'something tells me comment, always makes someone's comments feel real sincere.
  Most people can't defend themselves, that's reality. I'm actually pro gun but anti-idiot, and most people are idiots and that deeply complicates your arguments.
  Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, I'm not a professional nor frankly good at most things, if you have problems with my arguments please, comment it don't save it to yourself.
- Yeah cause when I call the cops about my stolen possessions and raped daughter they do so much to bring justice.
- If you think the cops are actually going to protect you if shit goes down, you're naive as fuck. They're not even obligated to do so.
- I don’t recall saying cops are useless. Are you sure you’re replying to the right person?
  The police do illustrate over and over again that even trained professionals make bad decisions when issued guns. And of course the solution isn’t to escalate things by raising the threat of officers being shot, but instead in finding ways to have less people with guns, so police aren’t on alert all the time and aren’t as tempted to use their guns as their only solution.
  As a thought experiment: If we gave every adult in the world access to fire the entire planet’s nuclear payload and destroy everyone, do you think we’d all be safer? Would the world even last 5 minutes?
  The more people you give access to deadly weapons, the more likely you are going to run into someone who is stupid, impulsive, or downright crazy and is going to use that weapon to harm themselves or others.
- I don't think cops are useless, I think they are a flawed institution that we as a society can fix by reforms. And I don't even see the big deal in this, nothing is perfect, everything can be made better or more appropriate for the situation. Long run it would be better for police unions to agree to some changes in training, scope, and methods because it would restore and gain more public trust. And the public will benefit as well.

🎶 This is America 🎶

Don't catch you slipping now
"Praaaaaise the loooord and pass the ammunition!" https://youtu.be/TUOPvtVZwo8
(Those aren't just the lyrics, that's the name of the song.)
- Before clicking, I thought you were quoting from "Sin Wagon," and I thought you really missed the point of the song.
"I'll trick or treat your sorry ass if you don't leave my porch right now, motherfucker!"

"He also shared that just the night before the incident, two people had knocked on their door severally and ran away before he opened the door."

This is what had him terrified

This guy needs to move to someplace remote if someone knocking on his door scares him enough to point a gun at a 6 year old.
- Seriously... if you're ready to shoot a couple kids ding-dong-ditching you then you don't need your gun, you need a fucking psych ward.
- He needs to be moved to a prison.
Terrified? What does he think the 6 year old is going to do to him?
- Move in?
- Well, the kid did threathen him with a "Trick" if he din't gave him a "Treat".
- Maybe he thought it was the "two people that knocked on the door before," not the "6 year old."
  See what happens when you use your brain? Life starts to make sense, lol.
What a fucking pussy
- You probably don't know what he's dealing with or who he's angered.
Remember the guy that shot the woman that was backing out of his driveway? Also remember the guy who shot a door to door salesman? Also remember the guy who shot a kid playing hide and seek?

Take his fucking guns away!

Can't. 2nd amendment. You have to give him more guns. Also give a gun to the 6yo.
- Good kids with guns stop bad guys with guns.

Were there a bunch of snickers and Reese's in that bag or was he just insane

So he chose the trick.

He also shared that just the night before the incident, two people had knocked on their door severally and ran away before he opened the door.
"WTF is severally?"
Severally: separately or individually; each in turn.
Guess that's my new word for the day.
- Opposite of jointly!
Wen reportedly told cops that he "just wanted to scare them."
Because the best way to do that is by brandishing a lethal weapon.
- Well, it probably is the best way to scare them
- If only there was some socially acceptable way to scare six year olds at the end of October in North America.
a resident of the infamous Long Island,
IANAA, what is long island infamous for?
- Put simply, shenanigans.
- It's essential the northern Florida.
- what does not being an accountant have to do with it?
- It's more than famous. It's not just famous, it's infamous!
- Amy Fisher? Iced Tea? The Montauk monster? The New York Islanders? Brooklyn?
- Think there may have been some high profile serial killers there at some point.
- IIFFBINYABAI.

Finally, some good news on News@lemmy.world!

Username checks out.

Wow, reminds me of this:

The shooting happened when Hattori, on his way to a Halloween party, went to the wrong house by mistake. Property owner Rodney Peairs fatally shot Hattori, erroneously thinking that he was trespassing with criminal intent.

Guy’s gotta have hobby.

Game is game, kid.

https://youtu.be/Y2RMSpTsMUU?si=LTLtChImzwAt5wix

Not so fast

Sounds like a movie where his friend gave the candy that had intelligence sent by the CCP and now he really needed it back to make it to the drop off on time.

But I'm just daydream at night

Delete this fucker

Did he fire?

One should be able to deduce that the headline would be different if he had. Therefore, one shouldn't even need to read the article to realize that one already has all of the information one needs to know the answer to this question without asking it.
- I think it was a rhetorical question to shed light on the fact that he did not fire.
Read the article.
- Not really needed:
  Mom and daughter goes to drop off goody bag at house, does this, realizes that they dropped it off at the wrong address, goes back to pick it up, shithead point a gun at the daughter's head when they try and pick up the goody bag.
- Reading the article? On ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy?? Ain't nobody got time for that