Comment Re:My theory: Gun control won't happen... (Score 1) 1197
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a bad guy with a gun opened fire in the middle of a packed convention hall with tens of thousands of good guys with guns surrounding him? You have two possibilities: Everyone opens fire to stop the shooter, many miss (statistically), and the friendly fire is counted in the scores or hundreds. Nobody opens fire, recognizing that there is no clean shot with so many spectators around the shooter and it's simply not a safe place to discharge a firearm. In that case the shooter gets of a few dozen rounds and kills or injures a similar number before some brave soul tackles and disarms him.
In either case, many people are killed and/or injured. In a similar situation where nobody in the hall has a gun except the attacker, the same Samaritan takes him down and disarms him.
The presence of "good guys with guns" preventing death and injury in mass shootings is a myth and a Hollywood fantasy. There are times and places where a ggwag might make a difference, but these are not it.