suzzer99 |
10-02-2017 03:40 PM |
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...latest-updates
Quote:
But guitarist Caleb Keeter went further, describing the ordeal as a revelation.
“I’ve been a proponent of the [second] amendment my entire life,” he postedon Twitter. “Until the events of last night. I cannot express how wrong I was.”
Keeter said that members of the band’s crew have concealed handgun licenses, and legal firearms on the bus.
“They were useless. We couldn’t touch them for fear police might think that we were part of the massacre and shoot us. A small group (or one man) laid waste to a city with dedicated, fearless police officers desperately trying to help, because of access to an insane amount of firepower. Enough is enough.”
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So about that notion that a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. If the bad guy plans ahead the good guy's guns can be rendered useless by a) position (behind cover 1500' away, 32 stories up) or b) fear of being shot by cops (which happened in Dallas when all the open-carry guys immediately dropped their guns and ran away out of fear of getting shot by cops). Usually b.
Seems like a perfect set of circumstances have to happen for a regular citizen to stop or mitigate a mass shooting. Has to be a) no cops around yet, b) more or less stationary shooter approachable from some angle or reloading, c) regular citizen who has the nerve to risk their life in the moment and take a shot at a heavily armed assailant when it's rarely clear there's only one. Obviously ex-police or military is a different story.
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