• Hardeehar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Devil’s advocate here, maybe he would’ve been stopped by a teacher with a gun before he got to even 1.

    EDIT - or someone. If you were personally there with the ability to stop a madman with a knife and defend a child, are you saying you wouldn’t use that power to stop him? I’m not talking anybody else here, I’m talking you, the reader.

    EDIT2 - so what’s the answer to this situation? I want to hear the ideas of those downvoting. Discourse is the opportunity, not a wall.

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      1 year ago

      Reality check here: We see time and time again in the US that this “good guy with a gun” nonsense narrative happens 1 out of 100 times if that, but the mass victims happen 100 out of 100 times.

      More lives would be saved by less larger murders than the off chance a hero is there with perfect aim and a clear shot.

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        1 year ago

        Still getting used to Lemmy! I’m not getting notifications about when I’m being responded to. I dunno.

        The “good guy with a gun” thing is absolutely hard to swallow, I can agree with that. But you must concede that if it wasn’t true, why would the President and most politicians making gun laws have a security detail with guys that are armed with guns? Why would the police carry guns? Why do banks have security guards that carry guns?

        It’s also a weird argument to say that I have a 1/100 chance of being rescued by a guy with gun Vs being killed.

        So the answer to defending yourself or others from the guy with the knife is what? Wait for someone else, like Uvalde? Be a meat shield? Even if it’s 1 out of 100, I would rather not wait to be hurt.