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In reply to the discussion: You can't reason with the pro gun crowd. [View all]lostnfound
(16,171 posts)I.e., Americans have so many guns that there's already "no promise that anyone at any time isn't armed. (Setting aside the ban on guns in churches for a minute, because this crime could have happened at an outdoor gathering as well.) With all these guns, I think most of the "good guys with guns" don't actually carry them around. Most want them for self-defense in their own home, right? Relatively few want to carry them around in public. Assuming that the "good guys with guns" would deter massacres, how do we get enough of them out there -- not just guns, but people willing and mentally able to carry guns in public?
I also wonder whether the crazies like Dylann Roof would ever be deterred by the threat that he might get shot by a "good guy with a gun", even if such people were everywhere.
What IS possible then? What could be changed, that would make a difference?