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[QUOTE="chrisrooR"] You're not supposed to feel empowered to stop shooters. How are you really supposed to confront them when they are usually armed and wearing bullet-proof armor? Especially in environments where you're not able to carry a weapon? You were trying to communicate that there was a slant toward having scissors out should be a first line of defense. They never said that, and that's exactly what the title of this thread implicates. They advise running away, exiting the building if possible, ducking for cover, hiding oneself in obscure places, turning your phone on silent...etc. The scissors come into play AFTER all of the previous ideas are exhausted. A last resort for someone who's going to die. And I visit your threads because seeing the GS community take a dump on your ideas makes me laugh.chrisrooR
They SHOULD be offering some advice to the public that DOES make people feel more empowered to defend themselves in a situation like this. Not some crappy, generic set of actions that looks like something out of an earthquake preparedness training film. A large part of the reason why more people are not armed to defend themselves is because of these "gun-free zones." A shooter sees that as a free target practice zone. You can be sure that nobody will fire back there.
Bullet-proof armor? You do realize that the majority of mass shooters are NOT wearing this, right? What you suggest is that people depend on the police to defend them from immediate threats. It's a disgusting and Un-American way of thinking. You and most of OT should be ashamed of yourselves.
For the majority of people caught in situations like this, there's really no way of 'defending' themselves. It's either run, hide, or charge the shooter and possibly die. What else can you do? And as stated before, there are places where you can't carry guns, so the second amendment goes out the window.
I've only suggested rational actions to an EXTREMELY rare event.
Hence the problem. I can tell you this much- It would help the economy much more to have nearly everyone buying arms and defending themselves if the need should arise (cops still needed to investigate and sort things out), than to enact more laws, requiring larger budgets for enforcement, paid for by an already struggling population.
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