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Originally Posted by Cochise
I'm reminded of the VT shootings... that nutjob kid chained all the doors shut and just walked around the building emptying like 20 magazines.... he shot, what 50 people, for want of one other person there who could stop him.
Hell someone engaging him would have at least given others time to escape.
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My thoughts also. But DaKCmanAP brings up a good point, even if I think he’s going about it wrong.
Lets say you’re on campus at VT the day the shootings took place. You whip out your CC weapon and blast a cap in psycho’s dome before he has the chance to stroll around campus killing at his leisure. I come around the corner just in time to see you drop psycho like yesterdays underwear and all I know is there is a crazed gunman roaming campus. In my mind, I’ve just identified you as the killer even though you’re the hero. I pull my gat and cap you. Someone else steps around the corner just in time to see me pull the trigger and, well it isn’t hard to see how this could go down in a bad way.
Like I posted before, I don’t necessarily think that arming all students is
the right answer, if there is a right answer, but I certainly am not looking forward to sending my boy to a campus where he can’t defend himself in the unlikely event he is caught in the middle of a VT type shooting.