"President Obama today criticized the notion that the victims in Orlando would have been safer had one or more of them been armed. Such an idea, Obama proposed, 'defies common sense.'"
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"According to the Miami Herald's minute-by-minute report, the killer roamed with impunity for more than three hours. At various stages he stopped shooting and walked around; from time to time he searched the areas in which people were hiding; and, at one point at least, he put down his gun and washed his face. Eventually, the police breached the building and opened fire, possibly killing some innocent people in the process. In so doing, they brought to the situation the one thing that was the most necessary of all: bullets flying in the other direction. If, as a general matter, President Obama thinks that the carrying of firearms will yield bad outcomes - or if he would prefer to work toward confiscation rather than parity in arms - that's a logically defensible position, albeit one for which there is scant evidence. But to contend that things on Sunday would have been worse had the targets had been able to return fire seems rather silly to me."
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/436731/pulse-outcome-would-have-been-better-if-patrons-were-armed
It's not silly. It is simply stupid.
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