I’m absolutely astounded by your insight into the VT killer. Especially how wrong it seems.
This guy was completely bonkers. He was going to go nuts somewhere, sometime. Yes, he planned this out
“rationally,” but by golly he was gong to kill a bunch of people somewhere.
Probably wrong. It is likely that he would have sunk into drugs or, if he killed it would have been his family rather than members of many other peoples’ families or he would have chosen suicide-by-cop and got in a shootout with police 40 years ago he would have carried a bomb onto a plane.What has been true of these people is that they want to do a lot of damage, kill a lot of people. They will only do it in circumstances where they can accomplish that damage before they are killed themselves. Schools are the best places for that. No one will have a gun in a school, but that is changing now around the edges. Places with Concealed Carry laws do not experience this sort of mass shootings. not because the citizen carrier whips out his piece and shoots down the wacko but because the wacko doesn’t even try it.
Let us return to the days of yesteryear, the days of yore, the days of legend in the old west.
What if, just if, anyone was allowed to carry, openly or concealed, anywhere?
How many places do you believe the VT killer would have found where no one was carrying a weapon?
I am a great believer in the old saw of, "An armed society is a polite society"
Could he have killed some people? Yes
Would he have killed as many? I seriously doubt it.