Reflections on the Hostage situation in Sydney Australia

[Roxy]

Yah think? How did the concealed Carry license assist in the cinema shooting .........and all the many, many other incidents in the US?

Ya... I do think that... You don't seem to have done any work to get the facts straight and to understand the situation.

• First, Texas is like its own little country. The mentality here is different than in other parts of the USA. What might work well here may or may not work well other places. And vice versa.
• You don't get a Concealed Carry license by sending in 3 box tops and a self addressed envelope. There is serious classwork about the laws, defusing situations with non-lethal force and a competency test. The people with Concealed Carry licenses pretty much know what they are doing, and they most likely know and understand how to use the weapon they are carrying.
• The 'Cinema Shooting' that made all the news happened in Colorado. It turns out Colorado has a Concealed Carry License available for it's citizens. But that particular movie theater had its area posted as a No Gun zone. So, to your point, there were no law abiding citizens there with guns to assist. And as a result, the perpetrator got away with what he intended.

Now... Just for fun, lets talk about Chicago. Chicago has some of the toughest gun control laws anywhere. But strangely, Chicago has the highest murder rate anywhere. The only places with a higher murder rate are places like Mexico City, Brazil, and Baghdad. How can that be? With guns outlawed, certainly the problem just goes away, right?

Or maybe... Just maybe... that makes all of the citizens of Chicago 'soft targets'. The outlaws... The ones with guns (because guns are outlawed), know the citizens don't have guns and have no way of protecting themselves from people with guns. Perhaps... Just maybe, that emboldens the outlaws. And you get that kind of murder rate?????