When May I Shoot a Student?---A must-read masterpiece of weaponized snark.

[kmlisle]

157. Lets look at an environment where everyone carrys a weapon and see what happens

My experience with this would be Vietnam. Most of he people I hung out with there carried their automatic weapons openly in the streets of Saigon - except that the DOD did not allow noncombatants like myself to have a gun. The rational here was that folks who have not gone through combat training were more of a danger to their peers when they carried a gun than those who had training. But even highly trained soldiers in combat shoot each other accidentally more than the DOD would like. So does a few hours of gun training equal combat training? And what are the consequences in a high stress situation? Based on the extensive experience of the DOD it is disaster. Apparently the police forces around the country agree with this.

So fewer guns equal fewer accidents according to the people with the most experience with them. These folks could be considered the "Militia' referred to by the second amendment. So why does the NRA support lots of individual gun owners rather than a highly trained militia? They are actually a lobby for gun manufacturers and gun sellers not gun owners. Like every thing else in America its about the profit. And the NRA is another scam using fear to make the environment more profitable for their actual corporate constituents.