02-15-2008, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
Sadly even arming everyone is probably a bad idea. Look at the wild west, look at someone the wrong way and they would start shooting.
Considering the average person is a moron I would be scared giving them guns.  
I don't think their is a solution to this, other then trying to ID these people before they snap. |
I think the “wild west” notion is a crock and largely a TV myth. Truth be told, during that period of history there were less murders per capita then since the time we enacted our first gun control laws. This is the same line the anti’s used when Florida allowed their citizens to conceal carry. The antis cried it will be the “wild west”, people shooting each other over parking spots at the mall and etc. The same was said when Texas enacted carry laws. The anti’s were wrong, it did not become the wild west. We do not have CHL holders shooting people over parking spots and stuff.
I can tell you that it does serve a greater good. Look at the mega church shooting a few weeks back in Colorado. A mental defective walked into the church (containing several thousand parishioners) armed to do major damage. A person in the congregation who had a concealed handgun license, took action and only four people were killed. And of those four people, they were not inside the church (in the parking lot I think). Once the shooter got inside, he was confronted and shot by the alert law abiding citizen. Can you image the carnage this mental defective could have caused? The fact that people were allowed to carry in the church did not discourage the shooter (I give you that), but the quick reaction of the citizen definitely mitigated the damage caused by the shooter. Imagine what would have happened if there were not armed-law abiding citizens, willing to do the right thing, and the parishioners had to wait until law enforcement showed up.
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