“I’ve got news for you. If Alison or Adam had been caring an AK-47 strapped around their waist, it wouldn’t have made any difference,” he continued. “They couldn’t have seen this thing coming. So I don’t want to hear that argument from the NRA, and you know that’s going to happen. And I’m going to take it on.”
I think if the victims had been openly armed there is a good chance that Lester would never have attacked them in the first place. It was their complete vulnerability that allowed him to carry out his plan. When Lester finally came face to face with armed opposition, he killed himself.
If anyone in the area was openly carrying then the shooter could have been taken down as soon as he pointed the gun and might not have even tried. There are a lot of what ifs. The left doesn’t own this issue at all.