Armed Woman Stops Shooter in TX

“Good guys” and “bad guys” is a grossly over-simplistic way of looking at these people. Everyone is just a “guy” until they’re in one of these situations, and it’s impossible to predict how any individual would react.

She was armed as a private citizen but her training doesn’t stop just because she’s off the clock. The ability to purchase a gun doesn’t come with training or responsibility, and this vigilante mentality that’s sweeping the pro-gun crowd needs to be curbed. You don’t become a superhero by walking around with a gun. You’re not a “good guy” just because you have a CCW.

I think there’s a much bigger talk to be had than “GUNS GOOD” or “GUNS BAD” in the gun control discussion. Disarming everyone is impossible, both in terms of security and practicality. At the same time, this push for more guns rather than ensuring that the guns we have end up not becoming further liabilities is alarming. You say that a “good guy” with a gun would have stopped Adam Lanza sooner – I say if people were required to store their guns safely, Lanza’s mother might have had her guns in a safe and Lanza wouldn’t have had the easy access he did. Would it if stopped him for certain? We’ll never know, but it might have. And if it had, maybe we’re not left guessing how many dead we could have saved.