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Originally Posted by EaseUp
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What is there to "get"
hmm, yeah it is interesting that we haven't heard of a shooting in utah, but guess what, Oregon HAS had shootings, and it's one of the two states that allows students to carry guns on campus. It's also ridiculously easy to carry in oregon, you don't need a permit to carry a loaded gun on your person as long as it's in plain sight--you can set a LOADED GUN in your seat next to you or up on the dash for example!
me loves me guns in oregon
but shit, man, take a LOGIC class.
obviously allowing students to carry is not the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE if you have two states with similar laws but one of them with different outcomes.
If there is anything to GET it's that these type of events are RARE.
Most people who get shot are involved in crime or are loved ones!
Strangers popping strangers is RARE RARE RARE. What is so hard to understand about that?
No one I know of who is properly trained, even in combat tactics, walk around quickdrawing their weapons. These kids were SITTING at their desks enjoying class when someone walked in and started dropping bullets from a gun.
The only people who could seriously believe that even a properly trained and armed person would have stopped that have NEVER been on the receiving end of this kind of event. It's pure randomness that the gun carrier would have not been killed in the initial spree, and then whether someone would have semblence of mind to pick the firearm off the dead body and weild it is just pure ludicrous. They weren't even rationally thinking when they barricaded the door, just plain reacting in panic mode.