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**Spats McGee** · February 22, 2013, 03:47 PM

Be careful in using the "only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" logic. Antis with whom I have squared off with this one often point to the SRO at Columbine (IIRC), the fact that VA Tech and other schools have campus police, and that Ft. Hood was on a military base, presumably LOADED with good guys with guns. (They hate it when I point out that the Ft. Hood shooting happened in a gun-free zone on the base, btw.) What I usually wind up telling them is: We know that a good guy with a gun MIGHT stop a bad guy with a gun. We also know that a good guy without a gun most likely will not.

February 22, 2013, 03:47 PM	#8
Spats McGee Staff Join Date: July 28, 2010 Location: Arkansas Posts: 8,821	Good guy vs. bad buy Be careful in using the "only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" logic. Antis with whom I have squared off with this one often point to the SRO at Columbine (IIRC), the fact that VA Tech and other schools have campus police, and that Ft. Hood was on a military base, presumably LOADED with good guys with guns. (They hate it when I point out that the Ft. Hood shooting happened in a gun-free zone on the base, btw.) What I usually wind up telling them is: We know that a good guy with a gun MIGHT stop a bad guy with a gun. We also know that a good guy without a gun most likely will not. __________________ I'm a lawyer, but I'm not your lawyer. If you need some honest-to-goodness legal advice, go buy some.