You’re Not Clint Eastwood

Meteor Blades tries to reason with gun nuts. I don’t think it is possible to reason with gun nuts. Instead of trying to use language and logic, I submit the following National Geographic program on the 1997 shootout in North Hollywood. It’s forty-seven minutes long and it’s kind of hokey, but it demonstrates how difficult it is to deal with a man who is wearing body armor and is armed with an automatic weapon and a 100-round drum.

Please note that these bank robbers did not have any head armor. Also note that they were facing 50 police officers who were trained to fire their weapons.

Anyone who tells you that they could have stopped the Aurora massacre is either lying or wrong. This lunatic fantasized that he was the Joker. The gun nuts think they’re Clint Eastwood. No difference.

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.