actually quite the opposite.
how can the most biased opinion possible further a rational discussion?
Really? The opinion of some who has been the victim of one of these shootings doesn't carry any weight, and, in your opinion should be ignored because it's
biased? Are you fucking crazy?
No, he's quite rational. Opinions are biased by definition, a victim is obviously predisposed for the highest bias possible.
Where a victim is most useful is when he/she is acting as a witness, not as a victim and gives facts not opinions.
So, when a rape victim says, "Man, I wish I had a gun." You tell her... what? That a gun wouldn't have helped her? Had that woman not left her weapon in her car, her father would not have died that day. Her mother would not have died that day. Are you going to try to deny that?
Of course, did you actually study what she said?
She doesn't have a clue what would have happened if she had her gun. She even said "He took her a good 45 seconds to realize that this man wasn't there to commit a robbery..."
before she thought ot reaching for her purse where a gun should have been.
I don't know about you but 45 seconds to think about reaching for a gun doesn't seem anything like an appropriate response to a rampage shooting. And that's what all gun advocates fail to realize: if it's not your daily job to react to aggression and you have the appropriate training and reflexes that go with this responsibility your gun is of practically
no use, it can even be part of the problem as it's potentially more weapon and ammo to grab for the shooter. Even if she had her gun, she would probably have missed because of the stress and instantly become the primary target for the shooter. This seems like an old story so like she said he was a big target and she
may have had a chance. Today killers even wear body armor so only a bullet to the head would stop them, she would have been dead mere seconds after drawing her gun.
As I said in a previous post, today in her situation a kevlar suit and a taser would be far more effective for survival (assuming that's the goal but I think many fantasize about killing the killer instead of minimizing the damage he can do...).
