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Originally Posted by SkvyWvr
I have a carry permit and carry my 45 all the time. It is lame to think everyone on that campus knew what was happening in the lone building so I can't understand how everyone with a weapon would be running around ready to kill. If I heard shots in the distance I wouldn't "run around" with my weapon drawn looking for someone to shoot. That is up to the police, however if I was in one of those rooms and saw the madman pointing the gun in my direction or the direction of another I would not hesitate in sending him to hell. Gun ownership demands responsibility. Anyone who disregards will find himself sharing a cell with the very fools he would protect himself from.
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I can agree to that, and I have no doubt that you would act as you described. But even though it might be an annoying question: would you guarantee that all those people would do the same thing in that situation? Sure, there'll be a lot of people who wouldn't lose their heads, I know, but all of them? No John Wayne jr., who wants to be a hero? You can even find such folks on the subsim.com forums, so why not in reality? (Yes, I know about armchair heroes, no need to tell me
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You talk about responsibility. Agreed. And there's nothing wrong with owning and carrying a weapon if the owner knows about the responsibility and doesn't forget it even in tense situations. But if everybody remembered this responsibility no one would be killed by guns. Unfortunately, about 30,000 people are being killed by guns in the USA every year. I don't think my opinion was too simplistic. Pessimistic, maybe.