Bus driver hadoukens woman with an uppercut.
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Papa Lazarou said:
She had already shown that she was willing to resort to violence. Who are you to say she wouldn't have kept at it if the bus driver hadn't retaliated? The danger wouldn't have passed until she left the bus or returned to her seat. The bus driver decided she wasn't going to return to her seat, so he removed her from the bus. She immediately came back on to continue the conflict.
Also, stop beating the dead horse about "unnecessary force." There was no unnecessary force, we already established that. It was a single strike (as retaliation against her initial shove), after which he removed her from the bus. She came back on the bus and attempted to re-initiate the conflict, but was restrained by other passengers. She clearly had the intention of continuing with violence, but the bus driver didn't retaliate further.
Hell, you might get worse treatment if you're causing trouble in a bar or club. Bouncers are big buff bastards for a reason.
Mage246 said:
Said with assurance or in jest?
Mage246
Said based on the article in the local paper that I read. You have the internet - use it.
Now imagine if everyone in the bus had carried a handgun like gun nuts want. The girl would have pulled hers and tried to shoot the driver, as enraged as she was. Maybe she would have missed or maybe the driver would have been quicker and short her in retaliation. Perhaps one of the passengers would have joined in. Instead of a bruised ego and a little nosebleed, we'd have at least one corpse, possible more.
"Oh but Jhess, if people all packed heat, society would be much more polite, the argument wouldn't have started in the first place!" Yeah right, did it look like anyone was stopping to calm down and think things through logically? No way.
"Oh but Jhess, if people all packed heat, society would be much more polite, the argument wouldn't have started in the first place!" Yeah right, did it look like anyone was stopping to calm down and think things through logically? No way.
AK47 said:
THANK you. That was bugging me fierce.
SO yeah, basically? That woman was being a total *****, endangering lives. The bus driver TRIED to get her off the bus, but she voluntarily got back on to keep raising **** before he could shut her out. She's a self-entitled dumbass, and deserves some special hurt. I'm on the bus driver's side.
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krik said:
Ditto.
Mage246
This story would have been much more interesting if he had in fact managed to produce a hadouken.
Because that surely was my point, right?Ambalon said:Because people who start **** never carry a gun with them, despite what the law says, right?
No, the NRA argument goes something like this:
#1 Everyone is armed
#2 Because everyone is armed, society turns into a magical, utopian polite one because no-one dares to start any ****.
#3 ???
Whether you think that the woman in question here - bear in mind that we only have a very fragmentary clip of events from a ****ty phone cam - deserves death or not, you seriously wouldn't think that heated arguments like this, that are fairly common occurrence in any urban centre, might escalate much more dangerously if everyone was, indeed, packing?
I also laugh whenever they saw "An armed society is a polite society- Thomas Jefferson".
He never said that.
He never said that.
Jhessail made a legit observation, IMO. Things would've ended on a messier note if the lady was packing a gun. There's nothing complicated about it.
To be honest I just don't see the logic behind every citizen owning a gun. Fact is it's pretty much uncontrolled. You might argue that having a gun allows you to defend yourself, but that same free flow of firearms provides your attackers with the same amount of firepower; why do people think criminals can so easily get possession of firearms in the first place? Maybe it's the high demand and distribution within the country? If you really wanted to protect yourself and your loved ones, get rid of guns entirely and limit them to military and law enforcement only.
Also, I believe all transport-related personnel eg. bus drivers, pilots, stewardesses, etc. should be equipped with martial arts training so that they can deliver some righteous justice to these troublemakers. When many lives are at risk, you just don't let that kinda **** go.
To be honest I just don't see the logic behind every citizen owning a gun. Fact is it's pretty much uncontrolled. You might argue that having a gun allows you to defend yourself, but that same free flow of firearms provides your attackers with the same amount of firepower; why do people think criminals can so easily get possession of firearms in the first place? Maybe it's the high demand and distribution within the country? If you really wanted to protect yourself and your loved ones, get rid of guns entirely and limit them to military and law enforcement only.
Also, I believe all transport-related personnel eg. bus drivers, pilots, stewardesses, etc. should be equipped with martial arts training so that they can deliver some righteous justice to these troublemakers. When many lives are at risk, you just don't let that kinda **** go.
