I'd like to link to a story of a brave gun-owner

[james_davis_nicoll]

of the sort who I am sure, from the rhetoric used to defend the American 2nd Amendment, leaps up to defend endangered crowds of innocents from people like Jim David Adkisson and Buford O. Furrow but for some reason I cannot find any examples. Instead, have the story of Joshua Seto, and a lesson in why it's a bad idea to jam a gun down the front of your pants.

[added later]
snippy offers Pearl High School in comments.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Yes, guns are not nearly magical enough to actually stand off a room full of people who seriously attempt to take down the shooter. It does make it kind of grim for a few of the people in the first wave of the rush, though. That's better for everybody in the end I think -- and the people in position to be part of the first rush are rather exposed and likely to be shot in a spree killing anyway (you don't, however, know if the attacker is after specific people, or just on a killing spree).