but the point is there are good guys and bad guys. when bad guys have guns it is nice if there is a good guy with a gun and the skill to use it effectively. No one advocates 'blazing away' but guns are not mystical. The shoot where you point them, much as code does what you say. And there is a skill level involved in employing them correctly. One good guy, one firearm, one shot could have ended this tragedy much sooner. The hysterical image of all the students pulling guns and suddenly randomly blazing away doesn't really negate the arguement that the problem is not guns - it is bad guys having guns when there is not a properly trained and armed deterent.

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>Of course, we're not talking about a cop bar. We're talking about a bunch of kids pulling guns and blazing away. I have no idea if the death toll would have been less or more.
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>>>>The only thing that would make me feel more foolish that carrying a weapon and not needing it is needing a weapon and not having it.
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>>>>How many times do you think he had to reload? And in all that time no one was proximate with lethal force and the will to use it.
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>>>So then, I take it you feel things were much better controlled and people were much safer back in the old west when everybody carried a gun and was happy to use it? The thought of going back to that ideology sends chills up my spine. Frankly, I'd stay out of shopping malls forever if everybody started carrying a gun.