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To: HiTech RedNeck
Suppose he’d shot Cruz AND somebody else.

Wouldn't that also be a possibility had armed teachers been present and responded?

58 posted on 02/23/2018 9:45:13 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg; HiTech RedNeck
Suppose he’d shot Cruz AND somebody else. - HiTech RedNeck
Wouldn't that also be a possibility had armed teachers been present and responded?
The whole point of weapons/targeting accuracy is to prevent casualties from friendly fire. So you want your security guard to practice, practice, practice. But in any situation in which actual hostile fire exists, the targeting tradeoff is that if you do shoot, you could kill one friendly; if you don’t shoot, you can lose 17 friendlies.

If after the fact you do have friendly fire casualties, it will always be easy to second guess. But, in the words of Ben Franklin’s story about two Quakers, the answer can only be "But thee was willing enough that I should stay and help to fight the ship when thee thought there was danger."


103 posted on 02/23/2018 1:12:44 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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