Responsible gun owners understand that. They are a tool that is to be used only when needed. Guns simply even the odds in a situation that you never want to find yourself in.
You are in a classroom. No where to run or hide. Desks are in your way so you cannot charge. There is no cover when he is walking around shooting everyone. Now taking cover, drawing your weapon then attacking? Seems alot better plan.
...Do we really WANT people engaging shooters in a crossfire? Even without regarding the rest of the argument, do you want "armed civilians" taking the law in thier own, untrained arms? Give me the SWAT team anyday. Multiple civilian arms create one hell of a tense atmosphere, even if the people weilding them were trained and equipped, it just creates mass confusion and chaos. I mean, at that point, who's shooting who? He might be the shooter. She might be the shooter. Who the hell knows? All I know is that from one shooter, now there's twenty shooters, some trained, some untrained and all nervous as hell.
No argument. But I think your odds of coming into contact with said screwball would increase with more guns being toted about. And my odds of being hit inadvertantly would increase dramatically. True.
Of course not. They might KILL someone!! Its better just to do as you are told and line up with your head down.
Replying to the crisis at hand. If anything, this shooting indicates a need for greater police training in reaction times. For example, during the Dawson shooting, while there was a death, due to police preparation and training BEFORE the event (thanks to similar massacres in l'Ecole Polytechnique and Concordia), cops were on the scene within seconds and had cordoned off the area, secured it and had killed the suspect. That did a hell of a better job then what would be, in my opinion, a ragtag group of people firing at each other.
It would not be a group. It would be one guy getting shot at rather than one guy doing all the shooting.
Agreed, and in the absence of these highly trained units, or the inability for these officers to access the scene...
yea, so how are the students supposed to defend themselves against 50 random stray bullets? tell me, how's your aim when someone is firing at you?
Then you declare anarchy and BREAK LOOSE FROM THE US OF A. Seriously, if a school shooting doesn't mandate an immediate SWAT team response, then something quirky is going down in the America I used to know.
How fast is immediate. Please answer me this. You don;t want to fight someone that wants to kill you. Thats OK with me. My problem is you want to take away my ability to fight. This I am not OK with.
