Forum Overview :: Jack Thompson's Fake $10,000 Charity Challenge :: If only everyone had been packing that day, VTech deaths would have been stopped

[quote name="Flavio"][quote name="Zseni"]To take on the case of VTech directly: the cops and laws we already had weren't enough to stop a single shooter at Virginia Tech! [/quote] This argument comes up from the gun nuts and SBs every time this happens, and I wonder if they've thought it through. The setting: a lecture hall, somewhere in America *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* In the middle of lecture, a professor and few students up front suddenly crumple in a splatter of blood. Dozens of responsible carriers whirl around, already in the crouched ready stance with deterrents drawn (thanks to proper, responsible training courses that all carriers would responsibly take ^_^). They see two students dead on the floor, with a third standing over them holding a smoking gun. Quick! What do you do? Dont stop to think! Those courses drilled into you that hesitation = death. Do you politely ask the suspect student if he's the killer or a bystander who stepped in? The shots could have easily come from anyone else in the room with weapon drawn. Of course, being well-trained and completely responsible, everyone calmly shouts for everyone else to lay down their weapons, <i>at the same time</i>. Of course, while this is going on, someone passing in the hall heard the shots and now sees a room full of people with drawn weapons and bodies on the floor. Knowing that the police (psh) are inadequate to protect us, all the responsibility falls on his responsible shoulders. Quickly he draws his weapon. "There's no time to wait for backup, <b>I'm going in!</b>"[/quote]