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At least it MAY not have happened, how it did.
I will raise a hypothetical, similar to the one I raised when that college campus was shot up earlier in the year. Suppose we had less strict gun control and more people carried handguns on their person.
For those of you who are unaware, some lunatic in Omaha shot up a mall with an assault rifle, 8 killed, many injured.
Also earlier in the year, some lunatic at a college campus shot up the campus and killed a bunch of people.
Assume there are 1,000 people in the mall, this is not unreasonable by any means for the holiday season, in fact, I am probably lowballing it, it could be significantly higher, maybe even 3,000 or 4,000 depending on the size of the mall and the time of day.
1. So assume 1,000 people in the mall.
2. Assume the jurisdiction this mall is in allows concealed handguns and they are not difficult at all to get, legally.
3. Assume 5% of the people in the mall are packing which seems like a reasonable number, so 50 consumers with firearms.
A lunatic is running around the mall shooting people and you have 50 people in the mall with guns, you don't think one of those 50 people will have the motivation, the will and the ability to shoot them?
Beyond consumers, if guns were more readily available, you don't think mall security would be packing as well? Mall guards are not armed because our society does not allow them to be, either by law, or by general social custom, we don't "want" them to be armed.
If more people had handguns then it seems pretty likely either a consumer in the mall or some security guard would of stopped the gunman in omaha before he killed 8 people.
One of the biggest lies spread by the anti gun crowd is that more guns means more shooting. This is demonstratably wrong, countries where every house has a gun, like Switzerland, have some of the lowest gun crime occurrences in the entire world.
The solution to this problem is not less guns and more restrictive laws, it is more guns and less restrictive laws.
The criminal element will have them no matter what.
No law can control the mentally deranged as they don’t obey laws.
Who are we restricting access to guns? Honest citizens who could protect us from the first two categories.
I will raise a hypothetical, similar to the one I raised when that college campus was shot up earlier in the year. Suppose we had less strict gun control and more people carried handguns on their person.
For those of you who are unaware, some lunatic in Omaha shot up a mall with an assault rifle, 8 killed, many injured.
Also earlier in the year, some lunatic at a college campus shot up the campus and killed a bunch of people.
Assume there are 1,000 people in the mall, this is not unreasonable by any means for the holiday season, in fact, I am probably lowballing it, it could be significantly higher, maybe even 3,000 or 4,000 depending on the size of the mall and the time of day.
1. So assume 1,000 people in the mall.
2. Assume the jurisdiction this mall is in allows concealed handguns and they are not difficult at all to get, legally.
3. Assume 5% of the people in the mall are packing which seems like a reasonable number, so 50 consumers with firearms.
A lunatic is running around the mall shooting people and you have 50 people in the mall with guns, you don't think one of those 50 people will have the motivation, the will and the ability to shoot them?
Beyond consumers, if guns were more readily available, you don't think mall security would be packing as well? Mall guards are not armed because our society does not allow them to be, either by law, or by general social custom, we don't "want" them to be armed.
If more people had handguns then it seems pretty likely either a consumer in the mall or some security guard would of stopped the gunman in omaha before he killed 8 people.
One of the biggest lies spread by the anti gun crowd is that more guns means more shooting. This is demonstratably wrong, countries where every house has a gun, like Switzerland, have some of the lowest gun crime occurrences in the entire world.
The solution to this problem is not less guns and more restrictive laws, it is more guns and less restrictive laws.
The criminal element will have them no matter what.
No law can control the mentally deranged as they don’t obey laws.
Who are we restricting access to guns? Honest citizens who could protect us from the first two categories.
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