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Well, except for Spawn - and I completely understand his stance, even though I somewhat disagree.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Jul 20 '12, 08:56

You want to be able to protect yourself and your family. That's important.

We have a society that is set up to protect us in the event of crime, but it can't really protect us *during* the crime - it can only act as a deterrent and post-crime enforcer of justice. Unless you're really lucky and the nature of the crime is such that the police can arrive in time (which does happen a decent amount of the time).

A situation like *this*, though, is just insanely off the charts. We don't have any way to actively disrupt it as it is in progress without introducing new elements and variables to society as a whole that could make other crimes more frequent (and certainly make them more deadly).

That's frustrating to no end when we hear about stories like this.

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- The only non-gun-in-every-hand solution I can think of is one that has an even greater downside. - Beryllium Jul 20, 09:02

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Well, except for Spawn - and I completely understand his stance, even though I somewhat disagree.

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