Where were all the good people with guns in Las Vegas? [View all]

NOTE: This was originally posted in July of 2016, but it could have been posted 272 times this year alone.




So, to repeat myself, Where were all the good people with guns in Las Vegas?


You know, the "good people with a gun" who are the only thing that can effectively respond to gun violence.

The NRA gun fundamentalists love to state that the only defense against a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun. They say this nonsense after school shootings, after theater shootings, after every type of mass shooting. So what happened in Las Vegas? How do we explain this utter absence of response by the mythical "good person with a gun"?

Some thoughts:

1) There apparently are no good people with guns in Las Vegas?


2) The good people with guns were paralyzed with fear and unable to respond?

And if a good person, or many good persons, had pulled out weapons when the shooting started, what would have been the outcome?

1) Would there have been many more murders because a general shooting free for all would have ensued?

2) Or would a good person with a gun have instantly found the bad person and neutralized the threat?

What is incredible, and not at all surprising, is that NRA apologists and paid shills can continue to make the same argument when all the evidence shows that there simply is no protection conferred by carrying a gun, nor is there any statistically significant effective response to this violence by an armed civilian.

How soon before I can repost this again?