"Somebody" wrote in message ...

Would a cop or volunteer or whatever be a match for someone with an assault
rifle, who has the element of surprise?

And security people are people too with all their bad days, distractions,
prejudices, pre-conceived notions, need for bathroom breaks, sick days, etc.
And can one cop really cover an entire HS campus adequately all the time?

Wouldn't it make more sense to lessen the chance of assaults, than to ramp
up more firepower against potential assaults... The NRA etc sounds like
they what went on in the Cold War. Was anyone safer during the Cold War
with more nuclear weapons and more and more money spent on the military?

Btw, I thought the NRA and conservative Republicans were for less government
and taxes. They seem to be advocating more of a government police state.
We already have in the US a military with an obscenely large budget, and the
TSA that no one knows if they really do much prevention for all the money
spent.

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They also ignore the fact that we have had mass murders in various types of
locations--schools, shopping malls, a movie theater. Are they going to
place armed guards in every place where large numbers of people congregate?
Not only would some of these people be the first to complain about the cost,
but it would also turn us into a police state. Ironically, the mother of
the shooter in the Sandy Hook tragedy had plenty of weapons. In fact, it
was her guns that were used to murder all those innocent victims. But they
did not help the mother--she was the first victim.

I don't call to have all weapons eliminated, but I do think there should be
strong restrictions on assault weapons and on the type of cartridges that
can fire off multiple rounds in mere seconds. The NRA even objects to
restrictions on bullets that literally explode in the body.

MaryL