Now MACS, I'm gonna assume you're trolling because you know I don't think guns are evil. I have no need for one, and I am glad I've never owned one (because I am clumsy, like to screw around a lot, and over the years I've had many drunk and irresponsible friends). But I've never said someone else shouldn't own one.
I think this "if only someone with a gun were around" handwaving is disingenuous though. You have no idea what would have happened, only your idealized version. In this particular case, a couple people got stabbed/beheaded until someone with a gun was able to shoot him. In an idealized world, the first woman had a gun and shot him before anyone was hurt. But guess what, that's just a fantasy, "everything falling into place" dream. Could be the first woman was armed, the assailant chops her head off, takes her gun. shoots the second woman and shoots the guy who came to stop him... then goes on and shoots a few more people. Or in a different reality, the first woman bought a gun to protect herself, her kid gets into it, shoots his friend and himself... she kills herself out of depression (using pills, because women never shoot themselves) and is never even in the plant to be beheaded.
Its all make-believe MACS. If you feel like having a gun on you makes you safer, then by all means carry one... but don't pretend that every possible situation will automatically be better if there were someone armed around.
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