This is a horrible tragedy no doubt, but i'm not sure how you could say it would be worse if there was someone in the crowd able to defend themselves. That would have no doubtably stopped the random gunfire that took place (as it's a little diff when someone is shooting back), either taking out the gunman or promting him to take cover, letting others escape.
He
MAY have taken out the gunman, but he is more likely to have missed in the dark with the teargas & all the confusion, this "hero" then may have killed others. Not only would these people now unnecessarily be dead, but the "hero" would have their deaths on his conscience for the rest of his life, plus be in jail!
Also, how bout the permanent lifelong injuries such as brain & spinal trauma. He would then be sued. So now the "hero" & his family are broke for the rest of their lives, guilt-ridden & in jail. How much worse can it get?
I think it is far better to have one shooter than 2 or 3 or more.
Stricter gun laws only keep the innocent even more defencless. The sh*theads that do stuff like this will get them no matter what. Laws never stop theives from stealing, why would it stop gunmen from killing?
I dont think this guy was some hardened criminal, just a young guy with severe issues that he took out on others. Exactly the kind of guy that strict gun laws would stop from getting guns, esp tear gas. I mean seriously...who needs teargas?!
This certainly is very sad, but I would like to put things in perspective.
Consider planes with events over the last decade. Would you want passengers to be armed in case one passenger went crazy? This is the perfect example of strict gun
control, not just laws but enforcement. I'm sure everyone will agree that NO weapons is the preferred position on a plane, with the only exception of the in flight marshal, who obviously is highly trained & screened.
Remember Columbine? That was a teenage student. No way would he get a gun with
strict gun laws. It is so sad that wasnt an isolated incident: Virginia Tech; Red Lake Senior High School in Minnesota; Chardon, Ohio; All committed by students.
An article by Dr. Frank Ochberg sums it up well.
Dr. Frank Ochberg is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Michigan State University and former Associate Director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
"Access to guns
Access to guns is a significant factor in American school shootings. If kids could not and did not bring guns to school, we wouldn't have Columbine, Virginia Tech or Chardon, Ohio.
There have been crimes with knives and bats and fists. But school shootings are gun crimes. Kids with guns kill kids at school.
I do not think America is an extremist nation, compared to other nations with bloody histories and despotic leaders. True, we have polarized political speech, and some of that speech is about access to guns. But the reason we have an American school shooting problem that exceeds other nations has to do with access to loaded weapons by kids who should not have that access.
I'm not offering a gun control solution. But any serious attempt to prevent school shooting will have to attack the problem by determining who should
not be armed, and preventing dangerous boys from bringing guns to school."
The same could be said of all citizens, no matter what country they are in.
