Stellar Colonies wrote:Australian rePublic wrote:All the American gun nuts have taken the oppertunity to use this as "see someone could have shot him", but the only shooting was when the policewoman shot the perpetrator after refusing her rdemands to drop the knife. Can you imagine how much worse it would have been if (more) guns were involved?
If the guy with the bollard had a gun instead it might have helped a bit, unless the police mistakenly thought he was a threat and shot him too.
What actually happened- a man stabs people, a highly trained copper shoots the man, the situation ends quickly, no collateral damage,
What would have happened if (more) guns were involved
If the victims had a gun, the perpetrator would have had a gun. The perpetrator starts shooting people, automatically increasing the body count, by default given, how much easier it is to shoot someone then stab them. Now the victims have guns, that’s great, how many of them would have used the gun? Now one of the victims starts shooting the wrong person. Now the wrong person starts shooting back. Now everyone’s shooting everbody else, and the police have to use even more force and try to determine who was the original gunman and who’s just shooting in self-defence. Now you’ve just caused a shit ton of collateral damage.