Lanza attacked Sandy Hook Elementary with high-powered, high-capacity weapons, including an assault rifle. He was protected with body armor. He was prepared to take on another shooter and might even have relished the opportunity.
So why did he shoot himself as the police arrived?
He was protected with body armor.
Body armor? Or was it one of those "tactical vests" that are used to carry tactical "stuff?"
But how well trained will the volunteer guard at, say, Anytown Elementary School in Anytown, Utah, be? What kind of a weapon will he have? Where will he be at the moment an unhinged but highly motivated shooter enters the school? I do not question the skills, training, will, or courage of the 100,000 policemen and retired soldiers that the NRA proposes to place in our schools, but I question whether we're willing, and whether we can afford, to provide them with the kind of firepower or the strategic advantages required to stand up against a determined shooter like Adam Lanza.
Well, I guess we all ought to bend over and kiss our own asses good-bye, then.
I guess one AR and two handguns makes someone into a Superbionic Rambo. And no we obviously are too hardpressed to pay $1,000 for an AR-15 or two handguns to equal Adam Lanza's deadly arsenal.
This is an example of what I call "useless journalism." Maybe it should be called "surrender journalism."
It teaches nothing, it is NOT insightful, it presumes a lot of things we know are possible to be impossible.
Wanna guarantee? Buy a toaster oven. Wanna DO SOMETHING about psycho killers killing kids in kindergarten?
Do something pro-active. And stop wringing your wrists in our face.
This wasn't a Decatur Daily article but the DD picked it up off the wire. I'm not surprised. I wouldn't wrap a fish in the Decatur Daily.
