Re: Do guns protect you?
- From: Jack Skwaht <Nevermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:24:49 GMT
Bow Tie wrote:
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I own two handguns and have never come close to an accident or havingsnip
to use one. I was trained in the use of and fighting with a sidearm
and a service rifle in the Navy. I think I could have saved a lot of
lives if I had been on the VTech campus with my .380 or my 9mm.
If you had been packing on the VT campus, and you were going to save lives, that would have required that either 1) you were in the dorm where the first shootings occured and then sought out the gunman, found him and killed him, or 2) heard the shooting in the other building, went there, snuck in, located the scene of the shooting, got a clear shot at the gunman, and shot and killed him.
In either case, you would have been just as likely to get killed yourself. What private citizen, even one carrying a weapon, would actually go TOWARDS the scene of a shooting incident?
In cases like this, usually the shooter is determined to do damage. In order to prevent multiple deaths, you pretty well have to have some time, arrange for snipers/shooters to get a clear shot and kill the gunman to rescue the hostages. There were no hostages in this cae. Just shooting victims.
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Jack Skwaht
“Every time you tell me you don’t know, I’ll kill you.”
Knapp--victim recovery specialist on Kidnapped, holding a gun to the head of a bad guy who (‘til now) refuses to talk.
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