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Originally Posted by Land O Lakes
News to me.
Well, we're talking specifically about public mass shootings. Nearly all of them are brought to an end by skilled people with guns. Being so, it would seem like a gun in the hands of a skilled person would be of benefit in an active shooter situation.
Hence why there is a guy posting that he never leaves his house unarmed. He calls it being prepared; you call him a chickenshit. ....
Again you miss the point, I assume deliberately.
You could have Canadians today all rush out and guns in the same proportions as Americans, as that would make them 'prepared' should a mass shooting start as you say.
No one is denying that. But step back from your fixation on that as it does not make sense.
Yes in the remote chance a good guy with a gun happens to be present, that INDIVIDUAL INSTANCE, has a chance of the good guy with the gun ending it.
Your argument is 'the safety of that specific incident is increased'. HOWEVER overall he and his family and his neighbours and friends and everyone he bumps in to incidentally are all now at greater risk of death by gun. His gun.
Here is a cold hard fact for you. If more Canadians do follow his lead and arm up, for every 1 person they manage to save from a Mass Shooter, their personal guns will take 5X, 10X or more lives.
If he is doing what he is doing out of a belief he is protecting society from a Mass Shooter or other, (Self, family, friends, etc) there is no denying that the reality is that he has greatly endangered society far more.