But despite the massive news coverage, none of the media coverage, at least by 10 a.m. Thursday, mentioned this central fact: Yet another attack occurred in a gun-free zone.
The same was true for the attack at the Trolley Square Mall in Utah in February (snip) ban there was even more noteworthy because the off-duty police officer who stopped the attack fortunately violated the ban by taking his gun in with him when he went shopping.
I didn't know this; it makes the whole argument pretty obvious,
Few know that Dylan Klebold, one of the two Columbine killers, closely was following Colorado legislation that would have allowed citizens to carry a concealed handgun. Klebold strongly opposed the legislation and openly talked about it.
There is nothing you can do to prevent someone from killing people if they plan to take their own life.
You can only hope someone ON SITE has the ability to limit the carnage.
The image of the police arriving on scene at Virginia Tech, and hiding behind trees instead of entering the school is burned into my mind.
SOP for most police departments, when a suspect is inside a structure shooting, is to establish a perimeter, and wait for SWAT. This means that if an army of police were standing outside VTech on that day, there would have been no change in the outcome.
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