We are all aware of your position on guns, and I respect your opinion, but we are going to have to agree to disagree.
According to our very own FBI statistics, no one with a concealed carry permit, has ever missed, and shot an innocent bystander by mistake, that is a real life fact.
My position on guns is not that dissimilar from anyone else's here in reality.
Have you seen the amount of training and drill anti-terror and hostage rescue teams have to go through in order to be able to operate in these kinds of scenarios? It's insane. I've read a great deal about them. They drill countless times, and repeat it, every action and movement planned with total control and precision. The training is so intense that at any one time only a portion of the entire force is able to be deployed or ready for any alert. It is an edge that has to be kept keen.
Now you are trying to tell me, that a load of people, packing pistols, in a crowded nightclub, are going to unload on a person who is that motivated, he is willing to die himself, in order to gun down 50 unarmed civilians, and there is no additional risk to innocent bystanders?
I'm sorry but that is sh1ate of the highest order. A crowded and darkened nightclub, loud music, a crowd of people, and you have to work out who the bad guy is and react to that threat, when he has an AR-15?
This is not the movies. I don't think for one second that the outcome could have been altered much had 10 other persons been carrying in that environment. In fact, the death toll could have been worse.
No amount of guns or firepower is going to stop or deter these attacks. The terrorists have a huge and distinctive edge over any member of the populace, yours or mine- they are more than willing to die for their cause, in fact they are actually operating with that as their ultimate aim.
The problem we have is that these terrorists look like us, act like us, speak like us and live like us. The only edge you will get is in intelligence, in the planning phase and in the early stages of the execution of their plans, which takes an insane amount of police and security work, not dozens of people carrying guns.