Posted October 8, 2015 3:00 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

“I can’t believe that if that classroom in Oregon had had concealed weapons holders in there that it would have necessarily saved anyone.” That’s UT music professor Martha Hilley speaking at a forum of Texas educators opposing the imminent arrival of campus carry. She’s not lying. If Professor Hilley believed an armed defender could have limited the slaughter at Umpqua Community College, her opposition to campus carry would make no sense whatsoever. Equipped as they are with actual common sense . . .

millions of Americans can imagine the advantages of armed self-defense in the face of summary execution. They know that a gun – not gun control – was the order of the day when Chris Mercer opened fire. Which is why politico.com writer and fellow UT professor Matt Valentine penned The Myth of the Good Guy With the Gun.

It’s an intuitive and appealing idea—that a good guy with a gun will stop a bad guy with a gun. We can imagine it. We see it in movies. At least 80 million Americans have gone into the gun store, laid money on the counter, and purchased that …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns

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