Mjolnir wrote:
expvideo wrote:
Mjolnir wrote:
Would somebody openly carrying in the Westroads mall have made any difference, would it have made that person a bigger target, or would the shooter have ignored him and kep on killing others?
What are your thoughts about open carrying in that kind of a situation.
The real question is, what difference does it make? What does that have to do with OC?
You tell me, you obviously know so much more about this than I do, please enlighten me with your wealth of knowledge.
Would the shooter have picked a different target if he knew the mall was not a gun free zone?
Would people OCing in the mall have discouraged him from that specfic target?
Not only can none of us answer this correctly, since the only person who knows the answer is dead, but the question is irrelevant. What does this have to do with OC? What if there had been a cop? What if someone was wearing a kilt? Would the shooter have appreciated Scottish culture so much that he wouldn't want to ruin that guy's day? What if his parents were there? What if the staircase was made of wood instead of rock? What if they weren't out of flintstones bandaids at the store? What if? What if? What if?
I just don't understand what you expect to get out of these questions that you've asked. None of us can answer them. Only the shooter could answer them, but he's dead, so... Besides, I don't know about you, but I don't OC to prevent mall shootings. I do it because I like to and it's my right to, not to be an auxiliary police officer.
