I hold to the hope that FR is a site promoting common sense, both in politics and in American society.
My family owns an arsenal. We also have the good sense to know that guns aren’t the answer to all problems, and that they wouldn’t have stopped what happened in Colorado last night but would probably have resulted in more casualties.
Tell you what ... you stay unarmed and be a target. I’ll stay armed and not be. That’s my common sense.
We also have the good sense to know that guns aren’t the answer to all problems, and that they wouldn’t have stopped what happened in Colorado last night but would probably have resulted in more casualties. . . .
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Well, you may be right, if many of the people there had a gun there would probably been at least one more casualty.
It is much more difficult for a person to shoot randomly when he is being shot at.
There is a problem in that the guy was wearing black in a dark theater and there was tear gas. I don’t care how tough a guy you are you won’t last long in tear gas you will be blinded very quickly and lose control, the only think that would have helped would have been to tear the mask off the perp. If a couple of shooters could have gotten his attention and one brave soul torn off the mask it would have been over.
Gotta hand it to the perp, he came up with an effective plan. I just don’t think there is any way you can stop all people from doing bad things if they are willing to throw away their own lives. Suicide bombers and shooters are going to take their toll, we just can’t stop them all.
Even on Ft. Hood the shooter was able to carry out his attack as he was the only one there to have BULLETS IN HIS GUN.
We carry firearms just for this reason. Suggesting we leave them home and make ourselves easy targets under just such circumstances is irresponsible and stupid.
There is more to it than just probability. Sure, another firearm being discharged might have hurt somebody besides the sick SOB doing the shooting, but it might have put an earlier end to it, too. We’ll never know.
I do know that I’d rather go down fighting than trying to find a place to hide. I’m also pretty sure that this POS was concerned enough about his own hide to surrender when the cops confronted him, to plan a diversion to keep the cops away while he did this, to wear protective gear, and to pick a dark place were firearms are prohibited. Sounds like somebody fighting back might have scared him off even if it didn’t kill him on the spot.
Yeah, a good guy with a gun might not have been a magic wand to prevent or stop this, but I’d much rather the next psycho have to worry about somebody returning fire than to try and ensure the safety of the other fish in the barrel as they wait to get shot by making sure all the fish are equally unarmed.