>Hi,
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>>>>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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>>>>Nah. If I was determined to kill indiscriminatly, a defensely security guards and people that are in line to be screened at a check point is good a place as any to start shooting.
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>>>Slightly contradictory arguments there?
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>>>>How?
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>The first statement implies that if there had been another armed person nearby less people would have been killed. The second implies that it would make no difference....


The people working at those screeners usually are not armed... not that I've noticed. They're just there to operate the machine. So, yes, they are defenseless. If you're lucky there may be a policeman near by... somewhere.