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To: DieHard the Hunter
There are about 2 million crimes stopped in the US each year by an armed citizen. There have been a number of school shootings, including one here in PA and one at Appalachian Univ. that were stopped by armed citizens and the mall shooting in Utah and the church shooting.

abc has an anti-gun agenda period. Any BS that they portray has one motive, to demonize a tool and those who own them.

You can formulate all the different scenarios that you want where a handgun in the hands of someone inexperienced would be ineffictive in a mass shooting and disregard all the shootings that were stopped by a weapon in the hands of someone who knew what they are doing and you have an abc special.

Here in America I think most of those who carry a weapon would rather be responsible for their own safety than to cower, cry and wait for the police to come and draw a chalk outline around your corpse.

91 posted on 04/10/2009 9:50:09 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: Eagles6

> Here in America I think most of those who carry a weapon would rather be responsible for their own safety than to cower, cry and wait for the police to come and draw a chalk outline around your corpse.

You’d get no argument from me: I share your viewpoint, and wish we had the same provisions for Right to Keep and Bear Arms in our laws.

I think there is some potential value in what ABC is doing: depending on the assumptions they build into their scenario it could provide some valuable insights into what could happen in that sort of shootout.

Experiential Learning is an excellent scenario-based tool: if this is what they are delivering it is likely to be of some considerable value..


93 posted on 04/10/2009 11:54:54 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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