The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

To me there's a pretty significant difference between rifles in the truck with an actual purpose and being so afraid of society that you feel the need to be armed while sitting in your seat at the movies, while sitting in class at school, while getting your hair cut at the salon, while eating at the local chain buffeteria. That's a mindset I can't quite get to, feeling so at risk that one feels the need to be able to kill other people at a distance at all times.

If everybody in that theater had had a rifle in the back window of their cars, I suspect just as many people would be dead.

Now, I don't really have that much of an issue with guns as a recreational toy. But while if there had been 200 more people with guns in that theater it might be true that fewer people would have died (though I don't know how true with the combination of the circumstances and his speed in shooting about 70 people in a minute or two), it is also true that if there had been one less person in that theater with guns then it is definite that a lot fewer people would have died.