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"Also a guys not going to pull out a gun to rob someone when he knows that person probably has a gun themselves and he has no advantage, but hey...thats just my opinion."

But what about that high-strung lady with a gun in her purse who is willing to whip it out and squeeze the trigger in a sudden fit of panic, or fear, or anger?  And let's say this lady is a bad shot and manages to pop a bystander in the head.  And the criminal fires and kills the women, and begins to shoot others because now he too is high-strung and scared.

There's really no good solution : /

Killings such as in VT are rare.  The amount of single gunshot-related  deaths by far exceeds big mass killings.

What needs to stop is the harrasment and the calling names and the treating people bad, whats so good about being mean?

Just getting a girl friend, a wife, and a life, and a family, teach that family right, and dont let your kids grow up to be wanabe gansters that shot people to join a gang, you see I saw this little kid at school, a 6 grader, i was in 8th grade, he was talking about what he needed to do, and what he did to get inside the 13th street gang, a guy made him suck his thing and the put a cup under it and drink what came out... and the kid still fascinated about joining, if we tach our kids right, by giving em a wooping at the right time, and being compasionate at the right time, they will grow up to be people, not *beep*s, or not biches, or not anything that keeps them from being a real man or a real woman.

GET SOME COMON SENSE DAMIT.

When almost nobody has a gun, every now and then you can get some mad man shooting from 5 to 30 people in some mad killing spree. Maybe you get a few such events per year, let's say 5 for example. That makes the bodycount about 5 x 30 = 150 max per year.

If almost everyone had a gun, the madman could only kill maybe 0-10 before someone took him out. The madmen don't care if they get killed so we would still have at least the same 5 madmen. The bodycount from them would be say 5 x 10 = 50 per year tops. However, because almost everyone now has a gun, also the other madmen who didn't have one before would now be going in killingsprees. Let's say we have 100 more madmen with a gun now, which would make maybe at least 1000 more bodycount per year. Also the not-so-madmen, who get upset for some random reason, would be producing individual victims, so maybe we have 10000 more people killing maybe 1 more each.... The bodycount would be... well... huge.

So, yes, the first 5 madmen would kill less, if all their targets shot back. However we would have thousands more new incidents, mostly smaller ones, but still much much more incidents.

The statistical probability of an innocent bystander getting killed by random gunfire would most definitely rise if everyone was carrying. You fix 5 problems, and you make 50000 new problems. Nicely done, Arthion.