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Originally Posted by Rerun
Now I'm a gun owner myself but I'm not quite sure what to think about this.
In some ways I think... the NRA... a far right gun ownership group and just one more of their crazy ideas.
But then again, its true... if there was an armed security guard at Sandy Hook Elementary, would this tragedy have happened?
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Yes with a slight difference, the security guard would have been the first one shot, assuming he was at the front door. The shooter was wearing Kevlar body armour and using a semi auto rifle, he was, from a strictly tactical point of veiw, virtually impervious to some old geezer with a 9mm pistol that doesn't know he's coming.
Even assuming you assigned 2 or 3 guards and made them wander the schools in full body armour themselves toting a .50 caliber rifle with kevlar (and class room wall) penetrating bullets they are still at a distinct disadvantage to a prepared shooter with the ability to ambush them unawares.
Failing this the shooter will just shoot the kids in the playground on recess from across the road or alternatively approach the school from a back entrance and use the 2 or 3 minutes it would take for the guards to respond to kill 20 or 30 kids, not to mention the chaos of 100 or 200 kids running up a hallway with security guards and shooter engaing in a shoot out through the crowd.
Failing that a deranged wack job that wishes to scrimp on bullet proof vests will just target a little league game or a ballet school or the like.
Then there is the possibility that one of your guards themselves goes off the deep end and decides to off the little #######s that have been teasing him about his weight issues for a few years just before he got laid off.
It takes about 5 seconds of thought to realise that the idea is idiotic and NRA stands for Not Rationally Aware these days.