[lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at aapt.net.au
Tue Apr 17 17:11:51 PDT 2007


At 4:11 PM -0400 17/4/07, Joseph Catron wrote:


>If a civilian had shot him halfway through his massacre, would you
>really have called her or him a "vigilante?"

It is sloppy thinking to imagine that armed civilians are the answer. You just need to think about that scenario a bit, imagine that a large number of students in a crowd are armed at the time that someone starts shooting. They all hear shots and pull out their guns, most of them don't know who actually fired the first shots but suddenly there are several people with guns in their hands and some wounded victims.

They all start shooting at each other!

It could easily become an even worse bloodbath, every armed person shooting at every other armed person in the room and everyone else caught in the cross-fire.

So arming everyone is far from a solution. It would be insanity.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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