ONE good guy with a gun on a space the size of a college campus, and you're saying that disproves the premise? My preferred scenario would not be ONE "good guy with a gun," it would be a population that is generally well-armed and well trained. So large percentages of good guys with guns.
Why would you think he's the only person who had a gun in that scenario? I certainly don't think he was the only person on that entire campus who was carrying. If there are statistically enough guns for every man, woman and child in America, then it stands to reason that there was not just one person carrying a firearm at that campus yesterday.
Can't have been that "good." It was a weapon-free zone. Gun laws really are the way to protect people from guns. Look at Chicago, and all the gun laws there and throughout Illinois. There hasn't been a shooting there since...well, this morning. But you get my point!
Oregon is a tricky situation, because, as a state, it allows guns to be carried on college campuses. It also, however, because of a legal loophope, allows individual colleges to make their own rules. This community college, for instance, is a gun-free zone.
That said, how many people do you think are aware of that rule? I work on a college campus in Tennessee, and it's gun-free everywhere. My institution is not allowed to set its own rules, like this place was.
It stands to reason that there were more than one person on that campus with a legally obtained and licensed firearm on them. That might *not* be the case, but you can't prove that any easier than I can prove my side of that statement. All I know is that all those people died, and the shooter wasn't stopped by a civilian "good guy with a gun."
Personal responsibility, man. Yes, you should seek out training to be a responsible gun owner. No, I don't think such things should be mandated by force of law.
You're expecting a lot more of your average American citizen than even our own government expects, and
that is part of the problem.
If it's up to me and I, for whatever reason, have the power to make the rules, all guns immediately are outlawed. No questions or debate allowed, because I'm the theoretical all-powerful ruler and I see guns as only a means to end someone's life that we, as a society, can't be trusted with.
Since I know that will never happen, I would
at least hope that everyone who has a gun is well trained in its operation and safety protocols. I also know
that will never happen, and any idiot off the street who has no idea what power he holds in his hand can just get a gun with a shocking amount of ease.
