Feed&Guns wrote:Everything you said. Times two.K.Mooneyham wrote:After reading through the posts on here, I will say this. I heard the police briefing just a bit ago. The spokesman (the Chief?) said that police response time was only 4 minutes from the first 9-1-1 call. That sounds like a very decent response time, and I believe the police did their utmost to get there in an expedient manner. Also, they were able to track and end those killers without any additional injury or death to folks living there, to the best of my knowledge. However, the old expression held as true as it could in this case: "when seconds count, the police are only minutes away". That is no dig at the police in the slightest; they did their best. However, they simply cannot be everywhere trouble may happen, it's impossible. The best defense is an armed defense by the citizenry. This was a tragically horrible event, I am glad the murderers were stopped, but I wish that someone had been able to do something when the whole thing started. I really do feel bad for the families and friends of those lost and injured.
I heard the whole shooting was over in 30 seconds. It's not possible to have the cops respond that fast. Not even if they were inspired by Barbara Boxer or Nancy Pelosi. The ONLY thing that would have stopped that would be someone at the scene with a gun. In a sad sort of way, we can blame CA legislature for these deaths. Maybe if they made a law restricting mags to just 5 rounds, this tragedy wouldn't have happened.
I recall Virginia Tech. "Cho's shooting rampage inside Norris Hall lasted approximately nine minutes" http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/ ... 3620070426
Good response I read on Twitter to all the anti-gun rhetoric that any kid with a cell phone should understand but most will choose to ignore:
@shkoops1
How amazing would it have been if someone in #SanBernadino had a handheld device that could have prevented casualties