The school shooting in Texas is more surprising to me now that I live in Austin; the amount of people who concealed carry here is really high, and I'd assume small-town Texas would have an even higher %. I'm surprised nobody seemed to be carrying at the school!
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I mean, I'm assuming that elementary school children don't concealed carry.
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Murder-suiciders tend not to worry about who might be carrying. Also, whomever opens fire on that dude is just as liable, if not moreso, to hit a kid rather than their target.
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It's gotta influence at least some of them a little bit; lots of them do cold calculating planning to get the biggest amount of deaths, and choosing a more defenseless place makes sense for that.
and idk man id really rather have a gun in a school shooting situation than not
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A good chance to revisit your priors in my opinion. Why assume concealed carry makes you safe?
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I assume it makes you safer, because carrying a gun increases your ability to kill someone, which increases the chance you might survive if someone is trying to kill you. I feel this acutely as someone who gets a lot of death threats and stalkers.
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As a survivor, I believe you (and many others) underestimate the sheer confusion of being in the midst of a mass shooting. Is that the shooter? Or is that a cop coming to save us? WHY AM I FROZEN IN FEAR. I didn't train for this.
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I am down to accept that being able to defend yourself in a mass shooting is *way* harder than you think it is. I still imagine that I'd rather have a gun than not have a gun, and based on reading accounts there does occasionally seem to be clear moments for some.
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(I do not know much about this, for the record, and I guess SROs are sometimes allowed exemptions, for example.)
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