Re: Do guns protect you?


"Jack Skwaht" <Nevermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bow Tie wrote:
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I own two handguns and have never come close to an accident or having
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.

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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.


--
Jack Skwaht
If you were in the classroom where he was shooting through the door and you
returned fire through the door it may have stopped the rampage.



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