re: #454 Dark_Falcon

I don’t think carry a gun solves all problems, but I do think one has a better chance of surviving an active shooter if one is armed after the shooter first attacks (those attacked first seldom have time to react, and those rare exceptions being because they are trained to spot such threats and alert). After that first attack, the odds of survival go up if you can shoot back.

I’m thinking of Robert A. Heinlein’s Tunnel In The Sky.

In it the main character is about to take a survival test on another planet. He asks his sister, a soldier, what gun he should take.

She tells him to instead take two knives. In a survival situation a gun will make a person think they can fight about anything. With only knives a person knows they are weak and vulnerable and will not take any chances, especially not stupid ones.

It’s advice I personally have taken to heart.