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> > I completely agree with this. People who respect the four rules of firearm
> ownership
> > should absolutely be able to carry in order to quickly shut down what would
> otherwise
> > become a mass shooting. If everyone in those classrooms were armed and trained in
> the
> > use of said firearms, I believe there would be far fewer than 10 people dead and 20
> > people injured.
>
> While that's a nice theory, even trained professionals shoot badly in stress
> situations. NYPD, for example, only hits a human target with 34% of shots fired
> (although they do hit dogs with about 55% of shots fired).
>
> Also: if a trained professional is at a situation where multiple civilians draw "to
> quickly shut down what would otherwise become a mass shooting", how does that trained
> professional tell the "good guys" from the "bad guys"?
>
> As a gun owner in Maryland, I recently had to take a 4-hour class (including range
> time) to get a "Handgun Qualifying License", to be able to buy/sell handguns (new
> law, which I support). At our class, after 45 minutes of "this is the barrel, this is
> the grip" and a number of repetitions of basic safety rules, the students were
> invited to come to the front of the class to "handle" the guns that had been
> displayed there throughout (a couple of 9 semis, a couple of .38 revolvers). Fully 7
> of the 20, having just been told not to, picked up one of the guns, pointed it at
> another person, and pulled the trigger.
>
> Problem is, they were not automatically disqualified for doing that.
>
> I don't want anyone else in that class, with the exception of my wife, to ever get
> the idea that their drawing in public would be the least bit helpful.