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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Oh man, this is all kinds of bad idea. The majority of gun owners have never, ever, faced the business end of a weapon. If there was, using your idea, an armed patron at the theatre the death count would have been higher.
My experiences tell me this to be true.
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I completely agree, just because someone has taken a firearms safety course does not mean that they can be trusted in a chaotic sitaution with bullets flying and probably little lighting where they are afraid for their life to be able to identify a target and actually hit it.
shooting at paper targets and cute fuzzy deer is far different from shooting at another human being who is spraying a theatre or a school with bullets.
Having armed civillians who suddenly think that they're goi.
ng to be hero's is just as frightening as the lone gunman on a rampage.
The hero citizen is more then likely to do one of three things.
1) Blow thier footoff due to adrenal poisoning
2) Blow some innocent bystanders head off either due to that person startling the hero person by sticking their head up at the wrong time
3) gets killed because while they can sorta shoot safe and know where the safety is they don't know anything about cover and situational awareness.
It takes a minimum of 6 months of training to get a soldier used to the idea of a chaotic battlefield and how to react to it. It takes longer for a cop in a lot of ways.
Arming teachers or citizen guards is just plain stupid.