re: Ben Carson is absolutely right, and for more reasons than he says

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Get back to me when you're sitting in a classroom and a guy has a gun pointed at you. By the way, you decide to be the first guy to rush the gunman.

Hypotheticals are great, but reality is reality.

I've been robbed at gunpoint. First, you aren't expecting it to happen. You're walking along minding your own business and the next second you believe you are about to die. It takes a few seconds at least for your body to accept the immediate fight/flight response. When someone pulls a gun on you unexpectedly, you answer "yes sir" and "no sir" and do whatever they tell you to do. That is my personal experience.

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I understand what you are trying to say but you are missing the point.

There is no shame in complying with what a robber with a gun or even a psycho with a gun tells you to do. No one really knows what you will do until you get in that situation. Different people react differently when survival mode kicks in and honestly I hope I never have to find out what I would personally do and I certainly would not fault anyone else who is put in that situation.

The point though is that when dealing with a crazy person who is intent on killing people the ideal thing is to try to stop them, however you can. 9/11 is a perfect example. 3 planes hit their targets and one went down in the countryside because a group of people rushed the assailants. They died as heroes, saving untold other lives by their actions. That doesn't mean the folks in the other 3 planes (or even the people on that plane that did nothing) are to be scorned but it does mean we should encourage and celebrate heroic behavior.

The emphasis needs to be on the heroes stopping or trying to stop the murderers, not on the murderers being able to live out their sick fantasy of going down in a blaze of glory killing everyone they can to go with them. Concealed carry should continue to expand as well, make it so that psychos can never know where they can go to shoot defenseless people because they will never know who is defenseless.