Wayne LaPierre's "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" also features. Notably quoted today by a congresswoman who clearly doesn't use thought as a medium before expression...
There have been several school shootings during which an armed security guard, employed to protect the children, has failed to do anything about the killer, or as at Uvalde the armed police have all hung about outside the school while a gunman went on killing children inside it (those police were apparently afraid he had a weapon more powerful than theirs). There was a department store shooting at a time when there were at least twenty-five people in the store carrying guns and they may all have been good guys but none of them did anything about the killer. I think there have been about five examples this century of a civilian with a gun stopping someone with a gun: the Washington Post lists eleven, but in more than half of them the bad guy had a knife or was a burglar rather than a gunman on a spree, or the good guy was a cop.
(MTG, you're bullshitting again.)
WeeOrcadian
Remember: guns don't kill people, people kill people.
True. However, people with guns kill other people more readily than people without guns do.
It's quite a new problem; in the 1920s eight mass shooting were recorded, in the 1930s four, in the 1940s three, in the 1950s four, in the 1960s seven, in the 1970s twenty-one, in the 1980s twenty-six, in the 1990s forty-six, including Columbine. That's 119 for the entire twentieth century, against the 128 so far in the first three months of this year. (there are three more days to go, so there might be another, I'm not going to be definitive here.)