Excellent letter. I agree 1000%. My son, a sworn police officer in a second-tier city in California, reports that the standard operating procedure for his department when they receive a dispatch about a possible burglar in a home is that they need to wait until there is at least 4 officers on scene and then they can enter the house to look for a perpetrator. If someone comes out of the house with a gun saying that he/she is the homeowner, that person is immediately disarmed (who know who the individual really might be) and given a full-body pat down. His officers also are under orders to even put handcuffs on the person claiming to be the homeowner. Then his officers can sort out the situation and identify who the perpetrator(s) might be.The same would apply on a college campus with a dozen students and faculty members - lightly trained at best and most probably with no training in using a weapon under stress - not having the training and ability to even try to understand the most probably chaotic situation and just shooting at anyone and everyone they see with a gun. Under stress their accuracy would be substantially reduced so bullets would be flying all over the place, hitting innocent students, etc. What a potential blood-bath. And the sworn officers would show up on scene and they would have great difficulty determining who was who because they are presented with a situation with a number of shooters and no possible way to determine which shooter is the actual perpetrator. Put on top of that all of the variables inherently present on any college campus and you have a real tragedy on your hands. Keep guns off college campuses. Rambo is a movie, not reality.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:21:01 +0000
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