RE: THE Gun Thread
August 8, 2022 at 7:47 am
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2022 at 7:52 am by The Architect Of Fate.)
(August 8, 2022 at 3:39 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:His counter is to appeal to an outlier case as if it shows a general rule......(August 8, 2022 at 3:26 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: And I can't help but notice that you keep assuming that by the time that a good person is able to access said AR-15, load it, and actually get to the scene of the crime, the monster in question is likely to not only not have finished, but hasn't actually started yet*. Let alone that the person entrusted to actually fire the AR-15 will be able to use it properly. Hesitate at the wrong moment, the monster could probably shoot the good guy with a gun and maybe end up with an AR-15 so he can do even more damage. That strikes me as a much more practical means for a shooter to get to the AR-15 than Boru's hostage situation.
Maybe the real answer is to try and keep monsters from getting guns so easily. But surely that would never work. It's not like we're A) one of the few developed nations with such lax gun laws, and B) the only developed nation that keeps having shooters who constantly commit mass murders. Everybody knows there's zero connection between having a gun and shooting someone with it and not having a gun and not shooting someone with it!
*From what I've been able to find, mass shootings are far more likely to be over in the span of a few minutes.
From the linked article, it’s implied (though not explicitly stated) that only law enforcement will be able to access the school safes. Which would make the safes utterly useless. The kid who sneaks a Glock 19 into his school could conceivably kill 30 people in the few minutes it takes the cops to get to the scene.
Boru
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Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM