(June 22, 2016 at 8:02 am)abaris Wrote: I understand their wish for safety and the desire to defend themselves when being attacked. But, as always, just think of what would have happened if many people had been armed in that club. Probably dark, obviously crowded, hardly any one of them with combat training, understandably panicked. I guess there would have been even more victims, due to friendly fire.
Which is why I bring up the FBI report in that Daily Show clip, written by the head of ALERRT'S Pete Blair. The odds of civilian with no cop or military crisis shooting training successfully stopping an active shooter is only 3%. The odds of injury or death in the home from use of a gun is far greater.
And no record at time of buy doesn't stop the person from hurting themselves or someone else after a legal purchase.
