CHRIS MATTHEWS wrote:
I've never technically been in combat, but I went through plenty of combaolt training. You overestimate the difficulty of shooting center mass & wounding/killing a 20 year old kid - himself an untrained novice.
Maybe one or 2 teachers would miss the guy. So? how would they or their kids be worse off for that? They were gonna die anyway.
With a half dozen armed teachers/staff at a skool, the odds are greatly against some punk being able to kill 27 people. If he "only" kills 25 before some teacher shoots him, how is that not worth it?
You assume this punk would somehow be able to continue executing people while being shot at. So the untrained punk would be able to execute his mission, but the semi-trained teacher would fail?
This theory that armed civilians would stop mass shootings has been study and completely discredited. When an armed civilian takes a shot at a mass shooter, the shooter immediately makes that person a priority target. Also, when law enforcement arrives, they do not know who is the shooter and who is the armed civilian. Law enforcement end up spending too much time disarming and detaining armed civilians while the shooter continues the rampage.
The performance of armed civilians has been studied in mass shooting incidents. Non-law enforcement/military civilians do a terrible job, even those who hunt or regularly target practice. It takes hours and hours of tactical training and practice to be able to take out a shooter in a highly stressful situation like a mass shooting, regardless of gender or age. Combined with the fact that the CT shooter and the Aurora shooter both wore body armor, it would take an incredibly accurate shot or high caliber armor piercing bullets to be able to take down someone wearing a bullet proof vest. Plus, the armed civilian will typically fire as many rounds as possible as fast as possible because they are both trying to stop the shooter and keep the shooter from getting them. This frequently results in friendly fire incidents where more innocent people are wounded or killed.
Lastly, the skill level of the mass shooter is not to be dismissed. The CT shooter had plenty of target practice and was familiar with his weapon of choice. He also had hours of training on violent video games, which has been shown in mass shooting incidents to increase the skill level of the mass shooter. So, an armed civilian in a mass shooting incident would almost always be at a huge skill disadvantage, be out gunned in terms of caliber and accuracy and just end up getting killed as soon as they got off a round or two.