PT92
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I am sure it has occurred to a great many people here that, given the circumstances of the most recent Islamic terror attacks on London Bridge (three attackers armed only with knives, exiting a vehicle and remaining close together), that just one CCW holder with only a 5-shot snubbie could conceivably have neutralized all three before most or all fatalities occurred. The police response time was noted as eight minutes, following the initial attack with the vehicle, and the armed officers placed a reported 50 shots on target. Some victims did resist before they arrived by throwing objects and running, but it was pretty much "slaughter who you will" for those right minutes.
One person with a handgun and the balls to use it could have closed the distance rapidly and, in all the chaos inherent to such an event, brought all three terrorists into fairly easy range almost immediately.
The Brits decided against firearms long ago. The ISIS types know this and are well aware that even in a suicide attack they will have plenty of time to cause mass casualties before anyone with the true wherewithal to stop them can arrive on scene.
Yup--there's a reason our brilliant, clairvoyant Founding Fathers understood the need to break away from the King...First and foremost are the freedoms that are had and protected via the rights of the people to bear arms, something of which to the very day some 241 years ago America established and set forth accordingly a Republic unique in the history of Mankind.
No to be either guilty of oversimplification and or being overly-dramatic, it's really that simple in that Britain decided differently precisely what Freedom entails centuries ago and they are paying the painful price of such to this very day.