04-18-2007, 09:22 AM
Quote:Holding a gun and shooting randomly is one thing... Being well trained and having deadly marksmanship is another... With but a lowly revolver I can squeeze off six shots in about 2 seconds, and hit a different target with each shot. I practice with clay ducks being shot at me. So if I miss, I get a broken rib or some other painful punishment for my failure.
Youtube.com. We live in a day where can you show it, not say it. Anyways...
Events like this make we wonder what the people involved were doing, exactly. Does anyone think to themselves, "maybe I should try to tackle this guy" or what? How many people does it take to overpower a wigged-out engineering student - I mean we are generally not exactly NCAA MVPs. What is the worst that can happen? You got shot and killed? The same thing that is likely to happen to you anways. Maybe you get away and someone else dies instead; that's noble. How many people would die before someone is successful? It seems to me three fatalies is better than 30.
Of course, I am sure it is just out of panic reaction with no real decision making going on so you certainly can't fault anyone for reacting. But surely it couldn't hurt to teach people how to respond. I don't know; I wasn't there, but that is the only thought I can imagine in that situation. Do something. No other thought really makes sense in my mind (literally in my mind, not in my opinion).