Holy shit

[conuly]

Sniper in high-rise hotel kills at least 58 in Las Vegas

Another lone wolf, but we still should be super worried about the scary Muslims from the scary Middle East, right? And in no way should we be concerned about the easy availability of guns in this nation either.

Comments

[kutsuwamushi]

Every time people argue that attacks like this could have been prevented if more people carried a gun, I think of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, where a civilian with a gun almost shot another civilian with a gun because he thought he was the shooter.

[randomdreams]

The probability of this happening should rise roughly as the square of the number of people who pull out guns and start shooting back during a mass shooting.

[conuly]

And thank goodness he'd had the good sense to stop and assess the situation. Most people vastly overestimate how much they'd understand at any point in time.