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Originally Posted by Lune
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Both the Uvalde elementary school and Buffalo grocery store had armed guards present. Of course people don't shoot up gun shows. It's a hard target. If your goal is to kill a bunch of people, you're likely going to find a soft target. Of course, mass murders have occurred in or near hard targets.
Here's the thing about guns: surprise and initiative are about a 1,000x force multiplier. The defender has virtually no chance against the attacker when surprise is involved. Most of these mass shooters are suicidal, fully intending to either be killed by cops or to kill themselves. Why the fuck do you think it would matter if every teacher were carrying a machine gun? If you make schools a hard target, they're only going to find some other soft target, and meanwhile you'll have a bunch of gun accidents and aggravated assaults turned into murders because a gun was available at hand.
Read my above post, I don't think gun control is the answer to this, but your post is just completely illogical. |
Ya, and also the type of gun doesn’t matter as much as the circumstances
The Virginia tech shooter killed like 36 full grown adults with only 2 pistols because he chained the two exits to the building shut so no one could leave
Same deal with this most recent shooter. He could have used a single-shot break barrel shotgun and killed as many kids when he’s locked the only exit, just would have taken slightly longer
I still personally think an increase in armed and well-trained security (same as we have to protect our politicians, concerts, airports, just about everywhere else involving mass gathering of adults) would do more to deter mass shooters than any specific gun law