Armed Vet On UCC Campus Explains Why He Didn’t Engage Shooter

And in the process completely destroys “Gun Free Zone” and “Good Guy With Gun” argument
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File this under “to be ignored by Dana Loesch, Fox News, Katie Pavlich, and others.”

Thank God this man had the wherewithal and cool demeanor to determine that he only would have made a horrible situation worse.

Via RawStory:

A veteran who says he was carrying a concealed weapon on the UCC campus Thursday when 26-year-old Christopher Harper Mercer went on a murderous rampage, says he didn’t intervene because he knew police SWAT team members wouldn’t know him from the shooter.

In an interview with MSNBC, vet John Parker said he knows lots of students who conceal carry at the school because, despite a school policy that discourages weapons on campus, Oregon state law does allow it.

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“Luckily we made the choice not to get involved,” he explained. “We were quite a distance away from the building where this was happening. And we could have opened ourselves up to be potential targets ourselves, and not knowing where SWAT was, their response time, they wouldn’t know who we were. And if we had our guns ready to shoot, they could think that we were bad guys.”

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