(06-14-2016, 08:50 AM)Askier Wrote: How many lives could have been saved Warren if someone had been armed and able to shoot back?
Why do we always rely on the military or police? Those men and women are just people in uniforms. Normal citizens can be trained just as well. Â
The attack in Paris is a tragic example of how the laws don't stop people from getting guns if they really want to find them. They will find a way. Â
Suppose guns disappear from regular circulation. Okay. So now all someone needs is about fifty dollars and a copy of the 'Anarchists Cookbook' and now they can make over the counter explosives.
Lives were saved in Orlando. There was an off-duty police officer there who immediately returned fire with his personal handgun. The police are crediting him with saving dozens outside. And because he immediately called for backup, and the responding officers didn't wait for a SWAT team to arrive (and instead entered the building and, using guns, forced the attacker into a bathroom), dozens more lives were saved.