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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
That's one crazy leap of logic.
I'm pointing out that guns are a deterrant. If EVRYONE was armed, well now you're going to have a really hard time finding a vulnerable target.
And I'm not ashamed to say that I'd be less horrified to see a bunch of adults mercilessly killed than kids. Is that old fashioned? Am I being ageist or something?
I'm only taking your argument to its logical conclusion.
But let's look at things more carefully. There's how many schools in the US and how many mass school shootings a year? (Of course any number > 0 is too many, but ignore that for now). The chance of a mass shooting in any given school in any given year is astronomically small. Putting guns in the hands of teachers will lead to at least some shootings (accidents or otherwise) that wouldn't have happened otherwise, and simply move the mass killers to another patch of turf.
The sum number of deaths will go up, not down.
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