Re: "NASA to study "city-killer" asteroid as odds of hitting Earth go up"

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025, Paul S Person wrote:

But surely in the US you must be able to find the very best education when
it comes to how to handle a gun? It's an invaluable life skill! =)

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The Army taught me.

That's fascinating! Did you ever kill anyone? How come you choose the army as
your employer?

On a sad note, I think about how many lives could have been saved in the
recent swedish school shooting if only the students and/or teachers had
guns of their own. Then probably only 1 or 2 students would have died. =(

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I'm not familiar with the specific situation, but two things occur:
1) If everybody is shooting, how are the Police supposed to take out
only the bad guys? It's a lot easier when there is a clear difference
between shooters and victims.

Easy! If they would shoot the shooter, the police would not even have to get to
the place, so the problem will not arise.
Note that the police arrived after 5 minutes. Then they camped outside waiting
for thing to calm down for about 45 minutes, and then they went in and found the
killer who by that time had killed 10 and committed suicide.
Much better if a teacher had a gun and could just shoot the killer on sight.
Also, add to that the deterrence factor for the killer knowing that he goes into
a school where the employees are all carrying guns. Then he would not do it.

2) If that much lead is flying around, I would expect the death toll
to be /much/ higher.

Not correct statements. Obviously people are trained before being allowed to use
a gun. It is easy... you just point and click. I've done it myself on several
occasions (using targets, not humans!). =)