re: #472 HappyWarrior

Gunfuckers think you’re going to be able to fire straight during a stressful situation. It’s funny to me because they’re always hurr hurr you libtards don’t understand guns and they’re right maybe I don’t but even an idiot understands that it’s not as simple as a “good guy with a gun.”

Depends.

The movie theatre in Aurora? Not a chance. That would have been a nightmare for a fucking trained SEAL, much less anyone of the rest of us.

The Virgina Tech shooting? Plausible. The gunman was at large for an extended period of time and all the classrooms were warned and had managed to barricade themselves. The lighting was good and nearly zero chance of hitting bystanders in hallways or if you were one of the people behind a barricade (in at least once instance, he forced through a barricaded door as students fled through a window as I recall, and would have made himself a nearly ideal target)

So yeah, in that very unusual situation, a student with a gun could likely have stopped the killer…but mass killings are usually chaotic (like the Gabby Giffords incident) and it can be extremely difficult to even recognize who the killer is and who the ‘good guys with guns’ are (again, with the Giffords shooting, a civilian with a CCW nearly shot the people who actually tackled the shooter. Come to think of it…police shoot the wrong people with distressing regularity variety.com )