Well I was about to challenge you on that but thought it may derail the thread . Lets just say while what you say is not untrue , I disagree with most of it . Like the nuances you used I can show the same thing backing my points . Of course it's not the only thing . I believe a teacher or law maker in Pennsylvania recommended having a bucket of rocks in each class room .
If it isn't the only thing and you admit it isn't the ONLY thing, then why would you repeat a self defeatest mantra that says it is the only thing?
A good guy with a gun has another choice. A good guy without a gun, doesn’t the options that the guy with the gun has.
True, but good guys with guns aren't always around and even when they are, such a Parkland, fat lot of good they did.
Hell, even unarmed folks stop these shooters.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jason-...west-middle-school-shooting-today-2018-05-25/ It is dangerous and they sometimes get hurt, but they sometimes get hurt when they are armed as well, such as Austin, Houston, Tyler, Santa Fe, etc.
Response time by the above teacher was a helluva lot quicker than waiting on a couple armed SROs who were apparently nowhere in the immediate (4 minute response in Santa Fe) area or SROs who don't do their job (Parkland). Not knocking all SROs, but they can't be everywhere and nobody is funding putting them in every hallway.
Tackling has worked in several school shootings, it isn't ideal, but people need to learn to take action. An active shooter unabated, while you are waiting on a good guy with a gun, is still an active shooter unabated.
Having a gun is a great option, but we really have to get rid of this stupid mindset that a gun is the ONLY option and that without a gun we are defenseless. As far as I am concerned, if you are a normally ambulatory person and consider yourself defenseless without a gun, you are probably not much better off with a gun because you haven't taken the time to actually prepare. "Defenseless without a gun" and "gun only" mantras are mindset problems and it they get repeated and reinforced over and over on gun forums like this one. They are a bad way to be thinking about self defense.