>>>Who would have known what he was?
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>>>Let me ask you how many that were attacked wished there was someone in the crowd with a gun and knew how to use it? How may lives would have been saved if some one in the crowd had a gun and knew how to use it this past Monday.
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>>I keep hearing that argument, but I still think it's spurious. Back in the old wild west, everybody carried a gun, and we still think of it as the 'wild' west. There is a reason.
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>It kinda is already. There are already millions and millions of guns out in America.
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>>>Did the fact that VT is a gun free environment save anybody's life?
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>>It's not a gun free environment. Who told you that? It's only a gun free environment if there are checks and methods to make sure it's gun free.
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>>Wishing doesn't make it so.
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>That's exactly my point. Having laws and restriction can't do much in an open society.
>As soon as they start to enforce some of these restrictions what happens?

If they'd had metal detectors etc at the school, he'd have been detected long before he started firing.

Like I said, it's only a gun free environment if you make sure it is.