AARRGGGHHHH!!!!! This is what is so maddening

[nadinbrzezinski]

Lawrence I love you, but.... it takes three seconds for the brain to process something like a shooting and react and draw and pull trigger. THREE FUCKING SECONDS. I can empty a magazine, (10 bullets) in one and a half seconds and damn it I am not that good of a shot. One TRAINED cop besides her would not have prevented her getting shot!

Why you need anywhere from eight to fourteen people and LAYERED security!

No, I don't expect MOST people, especially newsies, to KNOW THIS.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

1. Carry a conceal weapon doesn't emit a force field 10ft in diameter?

Oh well..........

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Nope, I would start doing shit

like issuing every congress critter kevlar, and in this case would have been for naught.

But I would do that.

[gatorboy]

7. Do they have head kevlar?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Yep, but them helmets are very hot

and heavy and uncomfortable...



They also use it in motorcycle helmets these days, but not to ballistic levels.

[rug]

2. His point is deterrence not prevention.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Tell me, would an undercover cop have deterred the shooter?

[rug]

5. A uniformed one would deter some, certainly not all.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. That is not what they are talking about

and the point the head of security made is exactly the same I made, without the layered security shtick... but he made the exact same point.

And that is not 100% secure either, but much better than ONE.