If you see one kid beating another kid with a stick, you don't give the other kid a stick so they can both fight evenly, because you are encouraging that behavior.

You take -all- the sticks away.

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The fact of the matter is, the United States is struggling with mass shootings, children are being killed.
More guns hasn't helped deter the situation as you have the most guns for a civilian population, more than twice as many as other developed nations.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-ownership-by-country

So if more guns hasn't helped... What's something different you can try?

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It's also pretty sad seeing people rag on police, I have worked alongside many officers over the years, no one wants to see dead children, the officers are human beings remember, with family, friends and a social life.

If officers hesitated or stepped away to avoid that, then I have the upmost respect for that decision, it's not for everyone, even if you are on the front lines daily, dealing with impacted children requires a very different mindset than dealing with Adults, it's not for everyone.

People not exercising their 2nd amendment right as suppose to by listening to people in this thread.

You guys are not understanding what CyberNinja is saying. America needs everyone packing and not only that everyone must be packing the most deadly weapon they can get their hands on including leaving the house everyday in body armor. If you are in a shootout and you have a hand gun while the other person is carrying 1000 rounds of ammo and a Semi Automatic rifle including being fully armored you are at a huge disadvantage.

We only have to look at the last dozen of these incidents to see that the more resistance expected by the shooter, the more prepared they are before executing the deed. In order to combat this, everyone needs to be packing and everyone needs the most deadly weapon. That should ensure every moment you leave your house, you are prepared for the dangers of living in the US. This should give you a warm sensation for every encounter you have with someone you have an issue with because if you are packing and they are packing first one to the kill gets to go home and see their family.

"common sense" is a meme and a fallacy

Empirical evidence is always required 

Handgrenades, mortars, mini guns and rocket launchers should be available for purchase by anyone. People need to protect themselves somehow.

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Just a gut feeling, but in a world of cancel culture, with a growing focus on police enforcement over the past decade, I tend to believe more and more, cops are no doubt thinking twice about every move they make, based more and more on cancel culture. You just don't really see that because the media only shows you a tiny fraction of what happens with the police day to day since they tend to focus on one event where the cops seemingly did something really stupid.

If the cops just rushed in and blew the shooter away, saving more lives, odds are they would end up getting smeared, just in another, worse way, where their career(s) may be quickly ended due to some other outrage.

Why didn't they wait and think it through more? Why didn't they wait for the professionals? They could have saved that troubled young mans life!

Of course, there's the scenario where they burst in, the shooter, ready, guns down 4 or 5 kids because of it, or heaven forbid one of the cops makes a mistake due to rushing and injures or kills one of the hostages. Kiss your life goodbye officer.

Again, why didn't they wait in this scenario? Fire them all!

This shouldn't be the case, since it's police enforcement, but how many people, cops or not, can sit there and honestly say they would've just burst in immediately, full well knowing what could go wrong and how that could ruin your own life, not to mention everything connected to you. Your family, the department, etc.

The deeper you go, the sadder the entire situation looks to be, at least to me.

^^So long for common sense gun laws. Guess I win this debate

And that's the point I tried to get across. Not all officers are trained equal and have the mental capacity for such scenarios. We have seen evidence of that in the past how they have behaved in other scenarios across the US. 

A few years ago there was this video making the rounds of a guy with a crowbar who was drunk or on drugs. Now he was so out of it you could have casually walked up behind him and forced him down to the ground. But instead about 4 cops put about 12 rounds into him. I mean shit if you need to fire, put one in the arm the crowbar is in and he will drop it. then arrest.

Mean while in other countries you get outcomes like this:

Now I am not saying all police officers are bad in the US, but it seems like their either under trained, or they hire people not capable for the role because there isn't enough people filling positions and you end up in these situations where someone gets killed who shouldn't have been killed.

Perhaps this is part of the problem in the US that fuels the fear that cops are out to get you so you need guns to protect yourself. 

This scenario is a bit different in urgency for such worry but I guess overall you do make a valid point as this would be something they experience now in their day to day job on the street, so hard to get out of that mind set. How many times do we see people recording cops these days and then slamming edited videos up onto social media. This is the main reason I reckon why cops are wearing more and more high tech camera to try and protect themselves from scrutiny. However public perception won't change and they get slammed further when the findings of an investigate clears the police officer, like there is some conspiracy theory protecting them from the law.

Agree the more you think about this the sadder it is as it ends up being a no win situation no matter how you play out the scenario.