Friendly fire shootings show why arming everyone won’t solve gun violence

[johnlucas]

19. I made a point about this truth on a Yahoo News story using the Gabrielle Giffords situation

When that nut shot up all those people in Colorado on the Batman movie, there was a story promoted by Yahoo from ABC's Good Morning America called "Mass Shooting at Colo. Movie Theater, 12 People Dead"

I made this post in response to the story & the general mentality of the comments there (pay attention to what's bolded):

The real truth is that even if you own a gun it will not protect you from craziness like this. In fact it may escalate the situation especially if one looking to take out the crazy gunman accidentally shot a bystander in the exchange. Your military who is specifically trained with firearms have numerous incidents of Friendly Fire. And they're TRAINED to shoot weapons. That pistol you have won't stop a bomb that has been planted. Will do little against an machine gun. Will do nothing against a sniper rifle. The answer to these problems is Mental Health Services. How do you CORRECTLY identify the violent crazy people, how do you treat them to make them 'un-crazy', & how at least do you isolate them from the public if you can't make them 'un-crazy'? Guns may make you feel powerful & give you a false sense of protection but chances are in the heat of the moment they don't do much to prevent crazy situations like these. Think about Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, one of the places that lives by the 'Everybody's Packing' mentality. All those guns they got & nobody intercepted Jared Loughner with one. They stopped him by simply tackling him to the ground.

John Lucas