First: No one shot back.
There are sick people around. In Las Vegas 59 people were killed and more than 500 were injured. Why didn’t anyone shoot back? Easy. No guns.
The usual story with a crazy gunman is a citizen with a gun to shoot him. that does two things. It stops the shooter and it shows potential shooters someone will shoot back. Those are good results.
The answer to the 1973 Munich Massacre of the Israeli Olympians would have been on person with a gun. No one had one.
Same for the Long Island gunman in 1993. One citizen with a gun. No one had one.
Same for the Las Vegas massacre. One citizen with a gun but there wasn’t one.
America needs more people with guns.
Steve Scalise said the answer is more guns, even after he was shot by a nutty citizen. He said he was glad his security people had guns, fired back, killed the gunman and saved many lives.
For the vast majority of their owners, guns are no more worthy of banning than any other element of their peacefully enjoyed liberty, one tool among many to shape their chosen life and leisure. Banning something that tens of millions of people innocently value and imposing onerous costs on American citizens, generally downward in socioeconomic terms, is a recipe for disaster. There is intellectual room to understand and internalize the pain and damage that weapons can cause in the hands of an evil maniac, yet still sincerely believe that any effective legal solution is either impossible or requires an unacceptable level of police interference into innocent lives.
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