The AR-15 is a high velocity gun, the bullets are three times faster than other guns, but what does that mean. When a bullet enters a body it makes a hole and the hole continues through the body and out of the body. Obviously. If the bullet hits the Heart or the head, you are dead, but anywhere else and you have good odds of living, because the damage is restricted to the path of the bullet. The AR-15 and other high velocity guns the bullet has a wake in the body. That means that the damage is a larger radius, several times the size of the entry point. Instead of a spike of damage to the body, it would be like shoving a fist through a body. The effect on an organ is even more profound. Rather than a hole in an organ, the organ would be obliterated. People who get hit with a bullet from an AR-15 tend to die.
Another fact that I gleaned from the news reports was a research report that said that increasing the number of gun owners by one percent would result in a 0.9 percent in the homicide rate. Which suggested that if you reduced the ownership of guns to zero present, the murder rate would drop by 90%. I recall talking to an American who came up to see the pope in Big Smoke a decade or so ago. I told him that half way through the year, we were at about 30-40 homicides, his home city was much smaller and had more than double that figure.
Another figure was 3.1%. That is the percentage of mass shootings that have been stopped by people with guns. That number is also likely including the gunmen that stopped shooting, and we're then shot. It also includes the times that law enforcement stopped mass shootings after they had begun. It would also include the time at the Draw the Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest when after instigating a response from the Texas Muslims, they had several guards on hand with guns.
Trump stunned the world just yesterday by saying that if he was at the school and there was a shooter inside, he would not hesitate to charge in with a gun or not. No one thinks that that statement is anything but pure bullshit, but he was saying it because the armed guard at the school did not charge in. Because he is sane. I am serious. Only an insane person with a death wish would charge an active shooter. When you join the military you go through basic training which is where they teach you to work as a unit and to shoot a gun and more importantly run at someone shooting a gun at you. Anyone who has not had that training and is willing to charge into battle, probably should not own a gun.
As for arming teachers, so in addition to class plans and marking, they need to practice their marksmanship, so they can shoot some kid. You need teachers to shoot kids. Hey Billy, I taught you geography, now I have to shoot you. Think about all those teachers that would get shot, because they entered a store with a gun and there was a nervous cop in the same store? Think about a crowded hallway with panicking kids because one kid is shooting other kids and a teacher starts shooting too. And they hit, maybe kill a student who doesn't have a gun. Think about the same scenario only it is a dumbass with some caps or Chinese firecrackers. Then you have a couple dead teenagers and a ruined teacher, even if he is not convicted.
The other interesting thing was that the NRA got major discounts in businesses. They could get premium packages for 75% off and discounts while flying, except now Delta Airlines is putting a stop to these deals. Really though with the cost of flying for airlines, it mig just be smart to stop those deals anyways, it's not like you could bring your gun on a plane anyways.
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