Virginia shooting

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Tac & Tom A,

While it's true that faculty and students with CC permits are barred at Virginia Tech from carrying a weapon on campus, had that not been the case may not have necessarily made a difference. The shooting was still in progress when several guns were present on the campus and more rushing onto campus every minute. All were in the possession of people who probably had more training in how to use their weapon than most citizens with a CC permit.

It wouldn't be proper for me or any of us who were not there to pass any kind of judgment or offer criticism of the law enforcement professionals who responded to the shooting at Virginia Tech; and I don't want my statements to be so misconstrued. I believe it takes a special kind of person, with a lot of special training, to rush with a weapon into a situation with an unknown number of shooters in the midst of scores or possibly even hundreds of innocent civilians.

So, just because a person can put 15 out of 18 pistol rounds into the 7 ring on a silhouette target at 7 yards (as is required for a CC permit here in Ohio), doesn't mean they can apply that amount of skill and training in every situation that might call for it.