USA | Families, grocery workers hid in freezer to survive Arkansas mass shooting

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• dogsnest@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  Arkansas has the weakest gun laws of any state in the country, ranking 50th in the Everytown Gun Law Rankings.

  Lawmakers in 2021 repealed an Arkansas law requiring a permit to carry a concealed weapon in public and in 2023 amended the law to clarify that concealed carry licensing is solely to allow reciprocity for licensees who travel to other states that require a permit to carry a concealed handgun. Act 777 also specifies that a person is not required to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun in Arkansas.

  According to Everytown, Arkansas has the 9th-highest rate of gun deaths in the US. In an average year, 638 people die by guns and another 1,247 people are wounded in Arkansas.

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  • MrFappy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So they’ve got the weakest gun laws, which often leads to more civilians with guns… but there wasn’t a “good guy with a gun” present in this situation capable of taking this guy down?

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    • dogsnest@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      from another thread:

      On average, the rate of a vigilante saving the day is one in 7,000. There’s no record of the number of shootings caused by bad vigilantes, though, so we don’t know if that 1:7000 is a net-positive.

      courtesy @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So you think if the law was different, this guy would have just stayed home?

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• BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Texas Governor Greg Abbott says: “It could have been worse.”

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• HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  satan! I hate all these product placements.

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