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Originally Posted by August
But you're assuming that everyone who has a gun on them will instantly draw it and begin spraying bullets around randomly the second the shooting starts, as if we are only a step down on the crazy scale from the killer himself.
That's what the whole gun control argument boils down to, that Americans cannot be trusted with freedom so they must be made as harmless as possible. If that means that we make it easier for mass murderers and other violent criminals to commit their crimes then so be it. All hail the power of the state.
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No, I'm not assuming that at all. I'm saying in a dark venue, with people screaming and running 500 directions, gunshots ringing out, fear, uncertainty, urgency--an armed citizen draws his weapon, sees someone else with a weapon and takes a shot and misses, hits the bad guy, maybe; maybe hits people around the bad guy--a second armed citizen who is in a different cluster of screaming people sees the first armed citizen shooting, he bravely tries to take down the armed citizen, meanwhile now the people clear the area enough for the 3rd and 4th armed citizens to see the bad guy, first and second armed citizens shooting each other--it's a group of terrorists, not just one, they think....they draw down to stop them...
I trust Americans and I'm not saying they should be disarmed at all, but I am saying in a situation like this, it will end with a terrible result, no matter their intentions.