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Originally Posted by GregWeld
If some looney-toons wants to - he could easily kill all the kids and teachers in two or more classrooms of kindergarten and first graders with a friggin' baseball bat!
What's a bunch of kindergarten kids going to do to an adult bent on committing mayhem (sorry Stielow!)? ZERO...
The whole raging gun debate is just that - a raging debate. It solves absolutely nothing.
Today we read about a whack job ex con killing volunteer firefighters... It never stops. His gun was ILLEGAL! Does he care about laws? He killed his own grandmother with a f'n' hammer! Laws mean nothing to people like this.
Until people of the world get that, there's not much to talk about.
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Greg you have a solid point. The paper laws are written on does nothing to stop a criminal. In this case of the gun debate, it's the lawful citizens who are being punished. For what? Criminals always look for an opportunity and an easy target. Someone who is aware and prepared is a deterrent.
I recall seeing in one of Todds posts that a person with a hand gun can't defend against an attacker with an Assault Rifle. At a distance that's true. Not so much in a close quarters environment. It was mentioned that the female Principle of the school lunged to stop the attacker. She was close enough to engage the shooter (regardless of what type of firearm he had) to engage him. Same with the CCW holder in the OR mall shooting. Two similar, yet very different situations. The Principle most likely had a better chance of success (wasn't there, so I can't say for sure). The CCW guy at the mall, made a wise choice knowing that the chances of collateral damage was much higher.