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Decoy of Fenris

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7. Just so you know, not all of your "incidents" are negative. Or shootings, for that matter.
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 03:57 PM
Dec 2015

One was not a shooting; people crashed their SUV into a home, killing one, with people inside the car having been shot at some point prior to the crash.

One was a home invasion where two innocents were killed before a third killed the invader.

One was an attempted robbery where the robber was shot and killed on the scene.


That was just my first three completely random searches on the front page of the source material, via the link you provided. The problem with aggregators such as the site you linked is that the aggregator searches for -any- mention of "Shot", regardless of context. Searching that site earlier also yielded a strange incidence where a small child shot someone with a pellet gun; filed under "Shooting" as well.

So, of the "2500" negative incidents, in the first three I clicked on randomly, two fatalities were due to criminal acts, two fatalities were successful defensive gun uses, and one fatality was a car rolling onto someone. Not exactly "negative" and not exactly unjustified, either.

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