Adam Lanza reportedly had hundreds of rounds of ammunition and several more loaded magazines that went unfired at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newton, CT.
Why didn’t he use them? Why didn’t he continue on his horrific massacre of innocent children and unarmed teachers?
What compelled him to lob one last volley of rounds at huddled school children before firing a single round from one of his pistols into his own head?
The answer to these questions is extremely instructive into solving the problem.
From the moment 20-year old Adam Lanza fired his first shots, killed 26 people, and then shot himself was a staggering 10 minutes.
It wasn’t until police were rushing him…within yards of being able to take him out did he shoot himself. Let’s restate that, so you get my point without any ambiguity: at soon as Lanza encountered armed resistance to his rampage, he ended it; he calmly walked through the hall executing unarmed and defenseless women and children, but the instant armed men were on the scene he became the ultimate coward and ended his own life.
My point, for those of you so obtuse as not to get it yet: Imagine how many lives would have been saved, how many more sweet young children would be home tonight with their parents getting ready for school tomorrow…had the teachers and administrators at this school been armed and able to defend themselves?
Lanza walked into one classroom and killed the teacher and every single child in the room. How the hell can you sit there and argue any worse possible outcome had the teacher also been armed?
The answer is not fewer guns, the answer is to eliminate the ridiculous and dangerous concept of “gun free zones.”
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you’ll get no argument from me Robbie. just sent you a tweet.
Every time there is a mass shooting it is always an armed man/woman that ends the criminals attack, including the recent shooting in Oregon. The sooner that happens the fewer people are harmed. If schools can’t/won’t have armed security, they need to arm the teachers.
What was the line I saw from Massad Ayoob? Oh yeah….gun free zones, psychopath hunting grounds. Israel has allowed it’s teachers and administrators to be armed since (I believe) the mid 80′s. when was the last time you heard of an Isreali school being shot up?
Let’s look at reality here:
When a madman drove his truck through a Luby’s window in Killeen, and slaughtered 23 people and wounded 20 more, how many would have been saved had Dr. Suzanne Hupp not left her hand gun that she had a concealed carry permit for, in her car according to Texas law at the time? Luby’s in Killeen? How many people there that day were U.S. Army?
When Nidal Hassan went on his jihadist shooting rampage, how many would have been saved if our soldiers were allowed to carry side arms while on base?
When another deranged untreated mental patient walked through the Aurora, Colorado theater, killing with random, do you really believe that lives would not have been saved it that theater had allowed at least the active military members that were there that night to be packing?
Dick Durbin (I just shorten it to “dick”) said yesterday that we need a “conversation” about stricter gun laws. Fine, Dicky, you pass a law that effectively takes the weapons away from the gangbangers of Chicago, New York and L.A., and we’ll talk. You end these stupid gun “free” zones where I am nothing but another potential random target without the ability to protect myself and others, and we’ll talk. You end the practice of some ambulance chasing lawyer suing any school official that warns of the danger of a mentally unstable student, and we’ll talk. Until then, I will do whatever it takes to protect myself from those that you want to cut so much slack.
The cowards that do these henious acts know they are going to meet with little, to no, resistance in any gun “free” zone. And if they don’t kill themselves, they will wind up in some jail house mental ward, only to be allowed to eventually walk the streets freely like Hinkley, who shot President Reagan. Never mind that Hinkley, and all others like him, suffer from rabid dog syndrome and should be treated accordingly.
Oh, the push is coming to ban guns from law abiding citizens. And it’s not because some nut just murdered 27 innocents. It’s because the Socialists that we have put in our Congress knew that Hitler was right.
Dr. Hupp did not have a permit to carry, Texas did not have a CHL until 1995. The reason she didn’t have her weapon with her was the feared violating the law at that time, being arrested and losing her professional license.
Her testimony before Congress was compelling.
Perfect response.
Anon…There actually was at least ONE that I remember reading of for sure…possibly 3..CCW holders IN the theatres in Aurora. Where were the weapons? In the case of the one I know of for sure…out in the trunk of his car because the theatre was a no gun zone. Bitch of it is with Aurora city laws…he’d have been arrested for pulling the trigger on the son of a bitch, if he’d forgotten and taken it in with him.
Amen
guns are unlucky; they have only one purpose–to kill.
Go ahead, keep on pushing for more guns, and you will see what will happen to this country. Everyone will be paranoid, there will be mass killings everyday, everywhere. Mark my words well. We have to evolve from this mentality
The same old argument from lib lunatics: guns have purpose to kill? Or is it the person pulling the trigger? Don’t treat me like a child Sir. I can determine when to pull the trigger. Paranoia has overcome you Sir, I am just afraid for my kids with all these sickos out there.
Gun ownership is a constitutionally – guaranteed right whether you like it or not. Chicago tried to curtail that right for so many years and not too long ago lost that fight. Now I am looking at possibly being able to carry a concealed weapon in Illinois. Some have come to their senses here. Bravo!!!
I side with majority here: had any of the teachers a gun, this tragedy would have been prevented sooner (less innoncent victims).
One last thing: you don’t want me to have a gun but are doing nothing to push municapilities to punish gangbangers and other assortment of criminals more meaningfully and to control the illegal flaw of guns? “ustice is incidental to law and order” (Hoover) but from where I sit, criminals have had the upper hand for much too long.
May the victims and their families of this tragedy be remembered forever. May we allow school employees to carry concealed weapons as a lesson from this tragedy….
I’m sorry, I have to add this: all people who own or use guns are Cowards (with possible exception of some good police officers). We could learn a lot from China, and traditional Chinese martial artists–they never use guns, knives yes guns no. Its too easy to kill with a gun, a baby could do it.
How are you going to prevent a “coward” criminal from pulling a trigger on you? That is the question here. Stop being so nonsencically philosophical and think beyond your nose – if you can?
Aw…poor little Anthony. The men with guns make him wet his little girl panties. Don’t worry, Anthony, when you need real men to come and save you from bad men, we’ll still come to your rescue even though you’re an effeminate little pussy.
In Anthony’s case, I would have to consider his demise as a necessary cull.
/just sayin’
You’re nobody without your gun.
But I do have my gun, Brantly. You? You’re just a nobody. Period. Full stop.
Oh yeah the chinese are such GOOD example with their state ENFORCED policy of only one child per family, preferably male and all others will be terminated. *clap clap clap* bravo. Sorry..disarming the general public only makes the public easier victims. 2011. 311+ million popple. 14,162 murders. Less than 9000 of them done with guns. of that 9000 most of those murders were committed by convicted felons, who shouldn’t have still been on the street against other criminals and innocents.
We have already learned a lot from China, we just don’t want to emulate them.
And I suppose sticks, knives, spears, hatchets and swords are “lucky”. Not to mention automobiles that are the luckiest of all, if you discount the carnage on our roads. Tony your naivete probably originates from watching too many well choreographed “chop-sockie” action movies.
Chinese martial arts developed in order for the peasants to defend themselves from marauders and the government. Guns were not particularly developed back in those days, matchlock technology at best. And the common folk were barred from having weapons of any sort, therefore the development of farm implement and empty hand methods of defense and attack.
Not everyone has the talent, time or inclination to train for several years and develop skills in the martial arts. And even if, say a 110lb woman did get her black belt, it would not be much use in a carjacking situation, or if there were multiple 200lb plus assailants. There is a difference between paranoid and prepared.
To quote an old phrase (correctly I hope) ” God gave man equal rights, Samuel Colt made men equal”
The guy is a cretin Tarkas! No sense polemizing with him!!!
None are so blind as those who will not see.
None are so ignorant as those who will not learn.
And along the same lines:
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool, shun him (the average libtard)
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child, teach him (the average voter? nah, too preoccupied with entertainment)
He who knows and knows that he knows is wise, follow him. (somebody that is paying attention)
If you don’t learn from history you are doomed to repeat it. Get ready for another great depression, thank you mr. Bernanke.