Originally Posted by xd40compact
What is the point of this discussion?
Why do GMU student feel it so necessary to carry a concealed weapon?
If this was such an issue why don't GMU student just open carry. Wouldn't open carrying be proactive to school violence and act as a deterrent to a school shooting? Rather than concealed carrying which would be reactive to the situation and would cause even more chaos and probably lead to more causalities..When people are under stressful situations, such as a school shooting, it is exponentially harder to hit your target with a bullet. Most students only have experience standing still, under zero stress, shooting a motionless paper target. This wouldn't be the case in a real life scenario...
Lets leave it to the professionals...
GMU students for cell phones!!
How does concealed carry cause more casualities?
What can cell phones do to protect you from getting shot?
Pushing 911 aint gonna make the police get there in a matter of seconds before the shooter takes out a couple students. Not to mention they get called to the wrong building or floor. Or how about they have to climb 6 flights of stairs or take the elevator? MANY people can get shot within a matter of seconds, especially if the perp has an automatic weapon...But hey, as long as its not you, right?
There is the matter of OCing will likely cause the student to be expelled, so hardly an alternative .....yet.
So because such situations are stressful and motor skills deteriorate, there are those that would guarantee the continued unarmed, defenseless status of the intended victims. These persons are no better than the shooter - they are the enablers, they set up the conditions that allow the perpetrator to have such a rich killing field.
No tactical training? Mistakes might be made? These questions/statements are designed to cast lack of confidence in average citizens right to self-defense and presumes that one must be an expert operator to be allowed to defend.
All of the best of plans, rules restricting guns, police para-military training and hand wring over the children has done NOTHING to prevent these senseless tragedies. The only viable, life preserving possibility is that the potential victims have the IMMEDIATE ability to stop the shooter. Anything else will only provide tomorrow's headlines complete with chalk drawings and stories about what good people they were.
Some people create problems out of solutions and demand a perfect world. All people must have the right to protect themselves and those they love. Where unfettered by false fears and restrictions this has proven to be an effective deterrent.
Cells phones, warning systems and other disarmed tactics are an empty hands approach that cries for more decisive reaction. But for the blindness to the absolute truth that nothing else will work, the tragedies will continue unabated.