Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "26 Dead After Mass Shooting In Texas Church" video.

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  58. Naomi, your response isn't showing up, but thankfully I have the full reply showing in my email. You're right that this shooter (and others) chose targets based on who those targets were. And for the sake of argument let's say that you're right, and that these victims would be chosen regardless of armed status. Do you think unarmed victims or armed victims would stand a better chance when he inevitably attacked? This guy was trying to sneak firearms out of the AFB he was at when he served. If we disallowed all citizens from having guns, it could have still easily been the same situation had he been a little smarter with his smuggling. I'm not sold that the shooter would have been just as likely to attack the exact same targets at a gun range as a church. The idea of armed targets being at a location seems to me to make it more likely that someone seeking to commit such an act will be deterred from acting on the impulse (no pun intended) in the first place. And the simple probability is factually and inarguably against you that armed targets have a lowered risk of death than unarmed targets by the sole virtue that they have an added measure of capability of fighting back from a distance with deadly ranged weapons versus having to get close first and then having to contend with the size and strength of the shooter, and that guy was no small fry. The person that shot the shooter, as far as we know, did stop his rampage killing. There is enough evidence to suggest that he wasn't done, even if it was going to be a new target he was going to drive to. He had multiple more full magazines in his vehicle. We can be sure that he didn't shoot himself as he went out to his still-running vehicle. There was doubtlessly still extreme danger in his continued freedom, whether that danger was to more citizens or police. And Vegas would have happened no matter what. This guy had the money and international contacts to get anything in the world he wanted as far as firearms and explosives. He had no past and no history. There's nothing we can do against that. That's the kind of thing that's going to happen no matter what laws we do or don't pass.
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