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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
Well, the right to bear arms didn't positively affect this because A) Firearms are not allowed at school, and B) There was no armed guard at the school.
I'm not sure if you're trying to fault the right to bear arms not saving the day when weapons are not allowed at school and no armed guards were present. We aren't exactly calling for 9 year olds to be able to carry guns at school to protect themselves from would-be assassins...
Or maybe I'm totally misunderstanding what you're trying to say.
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It really goes for any kind of spree killing where 99% of the time it ends up being the cops who take down the perpetrator.
There's two ways of looking at it obviously
-stricter gun control
-less gun control
Is #2 really a path we want to take? Fighting violence with violence, basically turning the U.S. into a hostile war zone of it's own, where everyone is so on edge that they feel the need to carry a gun on themselves at all times to be safe? Doesn't sound like a very hospitable environment to me.
An armed guard would potentially work, but at the same time it takes, what, 1 minute to gun down an entire classroom of people?