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Via Injo:
One thing I kept thinking over and over after Orlando was, what if one person in that bathroom had had a gun other than the killer? Would the killer have been gunned down, allowing for others to escape harm or death?
A week after the horrific massacre, you'd think some would finally come to their senses on allowing people to be able to defend themselves with a gun in a place of business in the event it comes under attack. Sadly, they haven't. President Obama visited family members of some of the victims on Thursday, who urged him to fight for more gun control in hopes of stopping future massacres. Bill Clinton said in an interview last week that club-goers shooting back at the gunman would not have been a good idea:
"Did you see how dark it was?" Clinton said. "It's likely that more people would have been killed."
But Mark Bando, father of Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32, who was killed in the Pulse attack, shared a different take in a letter to the Detroit News:
If we'd spent the last 2 decades living in close proximity to each other, I have little doubt I'd have trained him to use a gun. After seeing the Paris massacre last year, I thought, "If only one of the intended victims in that large crowd had been armed, many lives could have been saved." I also thought, this couldn't happen in America, because surely, somebody in a large crowd like that would be armed, in the U.S. Wrong, history has repeated itself right here in the USA and my son and 51 others were slaughtered like helpless cattle, precisely because nobody in that club had a weapon to shoot back with.
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