Originally Posted by CrazyFlamingos

Well said, Tad.

This is why I get so irritated with the "If someone had only had a gun" crowd.

When a lone gunman attacks a crowd of unarmed people, it is time to take a lesson from the old cowboy shows.

In short, as Ben Cartwright or Bret Maverick or Victoria Barkley might have put it, "you can't shoot us all at the same time."

It has been done. But the classroom of boys who disarmed their teacher's estranged husband or the emergency room workers who sedated a crazed gunman don't get the level of media play that the jocks cowering under desks while someone kills their classmates do.

Don't get me wrong, I am not blaming the victims. I just think that, if you are going to be a victim anyway, it is better to do your best to take the bastards out with you. (or better yet instead of you.)