Concealed carry laws useless against church shootings

[struggle4progress]

Dahleen Glanton
Chicago Tribune

... Dressed in all black, wearing bulletproof tactical gear, carrying a military-style rifle and equipped with dozens of rounds of ammunition, Kelley entered the Texas church prepared for a massacre ...

A handgun would have been as powerless in Sutherland Springs as it would have been against Dylann Roof’s .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol and the arsenal of magazines and hollow-point bullets he used to kill nine people during Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., two years ago ...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/glanton/ct-met-mary-shepard-texas-dahleen-glanton-20171106-story.html

[Not Ruth]

1. Are laws useful against any crime?

They generally punish you AFTER the crime is long over.

[jmg257]

2. Well that's goofy. A handgun is useless against a guy with a rifle, AND also useless against a guy

with a...pistol?

Dumb.

"Perhaps a handgun would have given the 5-foot-2-inch Shepard an edge over her 6-foot-3, 245-pound attacker. No one can know for sure."

Ya think?

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. The Texas AG was saying that there is nothing anyone can do about these mass shootings

Then I guess we don't need a Texas AG or anyone else since they can't do anything. What are they good for?