- What if the bad guy is surrounded by hostages? Are they expected to engage anyway?
obviously, this where quality training would help. Cops need to be trained to know when to shoot and when not to.
Might want to talk to black folks to see how that’s going.
- If Chris Kyle, a highly trained marksman, and good guy with a gun, was gunned down in a shooting range, surrounded by other good guys with guns… what makes you think an (at best) amateur marksman will fare better?
He will certainly fair better than someone who is not armed!
Well he didn’t fair so well.
He’s dead.
- What if having hundreds of guns in a single building is… bear with me now… not a great fucking idea? What if that building was filled with our children? Doesn’t that make it… an even worse fucking idea?
If the choice is having armed cops to defend our kids vs. leaving our kids unprotected, I’ll choose armed cops. Also these “hundreds of guns” if that is how many there’d be, would have to be strictly regulated. I think any guns coming into to school would have to be on the cops’ person 100% of the time. No leaving them in bathrooms, no locked closet with guns . . . ect.
But it’s extremely hard to get people to follow these protocols. And if you get more people, it’s going to be harder to harangue all of them in to following those protocols. If there’s more guns, there’s more opportunity for mistake. If you stand in the middle of a road for ten seconds, you’re much more likely to get hurt by a car in a car accident than if you did the same for one second. Your exposure to the possibility of a bad outcome is greatly reduced. And that’s why we need less exposure to guns.
We can do this. We can get legislation passed. Legislation has already been passed in some states, as Mrebo I believe said. It took decades to bring down Jim Crow, but it only happened because of hard work and protest. Now the world moves much faster. I’ll admit it, not all days I’m as optimistic as I am today, but we can still get something done.