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Originally Posted by Rob
One thing all these shooters have in common is they're fucking cowards. Every mass shooting that has occurred in the past 20 years could have been prevented, or minimized, if we had armed citizens and open carry. No shooting has been a spontaneous act, they were all planned.
An armed society is a polite society. Taking away a law abiding citizen's ability to defend themselves only empowers the criminal.
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My problem with everyone walking around with a gun on their hip is that now all these idots who can't even seem to figure out the self-checkout at the grocery store are going to be armed and feeling entitled to fire as needed.
It's not about having everyone armed. It's about having the right people armed. Schools could easily protect themselves from this kind of thing by having a few trained, armed guards on call on campus (how many would be determined by the size of the school etc). They could also allow the teachers in the school to go through some training and have a gun locked in their desk or a safe in their class.
The last thing a school needs is a bunch of panicked kids firing at anything that moves.