Thread by @polotek

I had a long conversation with some 2A randos on here yesterday about how to reduce mass shootings. You know the type. Their "solution" is to allow more people to carry guns all the time and hope they stop the shooters.

Welp!

https://twitter.com/RealSpikeCohen/status/1537173291781312518

For the record, the true die-hards also don't want the police to interfere with private citizen shootouts. They stop short of #DefundThePolice of course. But they do want police to stay out of violent incidents like this entirely and leave it to good guy heroes. Mind boggling.

I sometimes wade through this nonsense trying to get a better understanding of where these folks are coming from. I wouldn't recommend it because they are not serious people. But sometimes I do actually learn something interesting.

The folks I talked to were in favor of allowing faculty and staff to carry guns. So I asked what I thought was a reasonable question: Are school employees required to shoot at assailants?

And they flew into a *rage*. No one is *required* to do anything! This is America!

And I thought that was fascinating. Because in reality, there is no plan that actually protects people. All they want is for more people to actively carry guns (if they want to of course). Because it increases the *probability* that a good guy with a gun *might* intervene.

The only thing they're really proposing is to allow more adults with firearms around children at all times. And no cops. And they are very confident that letting these random shootouts happen between assailants and Coach McShooterson will probably result in a few less dead kids.