Little-Acorn
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In 1999 (to give one example) a guy got a gun and went out in Los Angeles to "kill some Jews", in his words. He drove up to three different Jewish businesses, but backed away and left when he saw they had armed guards. He then drove to the local Jewish Community Venter and watched it for a while, finally deciding that no one there was armed. Whereupon he got out of his car, went in, and started shooting, killing a number of children. He then went to a post office (where guns were forbidden for law-abiding people) and killed a postal worker.That must give comfort to the parents of those five and six year old children slaughtered at S.H. Elem.Empowering individuals to defend their life, liberty, and property
The parents of the murdered kids in the JCC were certainly not "comforted", nor was the family of the postal worker, by the idea that people have the right to keep and bear arms. But the parents and acquaintences of the people at the other Jewish businesses were VERY comforted, and in fact owe their loved ones' lives to the people who had guns inside the businesses when the murderous bigot showed up.
How many lives were saved at those businesses? And, have the parents at the JCC asked the staff there, why THEY had no armed guards? If they had had them, it's likely that no kids would have been killed, and even that no shots would have been fired in the first place.
The fault for those murdered kids lies, obviously, with the bigot who pulled the trigger. But if the staff of the JCC had done the obvious and sensible thing, having armed guard on the premises like the other places did (or simply permitting law-abiding adults to carry at the school), how many children would be alive today, who are now dead?
Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia