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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
Quite a few of my esteemed pro-gun facebook friends are posting this article: http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/20...n-gun-control/
It's worth a read because it's not complete baloney - as in, despite its many, many flawed arguments, at least it somewhat makes sense (as opposed to most views from the NRA's boosters). Anyway, this is the best I've seen from the pro-gun nutjobs in the states, and even this isn't very good. |
The flawed arguments make it complete baloney to me, his idea of arming teachers or giving them that opportunity is ludicrous. This guy is basically a gun safety instructor, and he teaches people to hit targets. That's great and all but that crap flies out the window when it comes to a chaotic situation. Maybe all teachers should be forced to go through a military combat school during the summer of their last year of college.
He skirts around the biggest area of mental illness, and then skips right to the points that we need more rounds in a magazine because we might miss, again those bullets don't just stop if they miss they tear through walls and bodies and windows.
And the whole crap about the shooter will commit suicide when confronted. That's absolute BS, those killers will probably chose to go out in a blaze of glory when confronted especially when they're facing a teacher. The reason why those killers usually off themselves is that they hit the mission accomplished mindset.
Going back to arming teachers, what are we going to arm them with? usi's shotguns bigger guns then the potential killer. This killer was armed with multiple weapons including a AR-15 which is a very accurate fast shooting rifle with a large magazine and a very high quality highly accurate military grad non scope gun sight. Basically he can hit a target from a distance labeled in up to the length of half a foot ball field, a pistols accuracy can be measure in yards, pistols are not super accurate and in a shaky hand completely inaccurate.
This writer has a romanticized image of what he believes he knows about guns and about these shootings. Maybe we should drop him into a chaotic situation where he could possibly die at the hands of a crazed gun man with an assault rifle and give him a pistol. Likely his cavalier attitude would change.