1. Restrictive access gun laws in America do NOTHING but restrict the rights and abilities of the GOOD citizens in this country. The criminals don't give a damn about any law, and are unhindered in their use of any weapon that helps them in their criminal deeds. This has always been, and always will be.
2. The only way to stop a criminal with a gun is to put a good guy with a gun between the criminal and the innocents.
3. Gun Free Zones do nothing more than attract criminals to commit their deeds at these Zones because they know they will have little or no resistance for their crime.
Most have heard of the shooting by the mentally disturbed student at Arapahoe High School in Colorado. Some kid's sanity went sideways, and he started shooting up the school - hitting one innocent girl in the head.
"His intent was evil, and his evil intent was to harm multiple individuals," Robinson said about Pierson, whose entrance into the school was documented on security cameras, as was the bulk of the one minute, 20 seconds of violence that ensued.Holy crap. This kid had a shotgun with a bandoleer full of shells, a machete and a number of Molotov Cocktails to rain some terror down on the heads of anyone that got in his way. It appears he was looking for some librarian who had punished him in some way.
He had the means and the opportunity to make this a horrific, bloody scene. Instead, his terror campaign only lasted about 80 seconds. What gives? How is it possible that 364 days earlier, at Sandy Hook Elementary School, 26 students and teachers were killed?
What's different between the two incidents, other than the strikingly different outcomes?
Arapahoe High School had someone with a gun onsite.
The rampage might have resulted in many more casualties had it not been for the quick response of a deputy sheriff who was working as a school resource officer at the school, Robinson said.
Once he learned of the threat, he ran -- accompanied by an unarmed school security officer and two administrators -- from the cafeteria to the library, Robinson said. "It's a fairly long hallway, but the deputy sheriff got there very quickly."
The deputy was yelling for people to get down and identified himself as a county deputy sheriff, Robinson said. "We know for a fact that the shooter knew that the deputy was in the immediate area and, while the deputy was containing the shooter, the shooter took his own life."If I may be so bold as to editorialize, as soon as the Gun Free Zone was no longer free of (other) guns, he folded like a house of cards, AND NO OTHER PEOPLE WERE HARMED FROM THAT POINT FORWARD.
Both incidents - Arapahoe High and Sandy Hook Elementary - had lone gunmen bent on death and destruction. At Sandy Hook, the teachers and kids were slaughtered like sheep, until people with guns showed up. At Arapahoe, they were already there, and only one kid was harmed.
Why is it so difficult for the gun grabbers to do this math? It doesn't matter if those good guy guns are held by the police, or, as was the case only a few days before Sandy Hook, by a private citizen with a concealed carry permit (Funny, isn't it, how the press plays it up when a private citizen goes nuts and shoots people, but not when a private citizen acts to prevent or minimize these shooting incidents. Yeah. Funny.)
How many more kids and adults have got to die in Gun Free Zones before they get it? More guns will save more lives. It's simple math. It's not conjecture, it's fact. If the grabbers have another suggestion, I'm all ears. But that suggestion MUST NOT include disarming people who are willing and able to save lives.
No more. Enough have died as a result of their failed experiment. Their "reasonable gun laws" have led to nothing but death and misery.
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I agree. I think those teachers who want to be armed should be. Give them a class and deadly force law training. Then let them work and hopefully prevent one or stop when after it occurs.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Encourage it, but make it optional for those that want to help.
ReplyDeleteContinue with the better access control and door barricades and panic buttons and the like, but you will only stop an Active Shooter by putting the dog down, or them putting themselves down when they realize they're not the only one in the room with a gun.