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Why more people didn't die in Clackamas mall shooting
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<blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 2016678" data-attributes="member: 1294"><p>[Citizens' coolheadedness and individual preparation for coping with gunfire in public settings may have curtailed the casualty count from Tuesday's shooting at a Portland, Ore., shopping mall, law officers suggested on the day after the tragedy...</p><p></p><p>Does the collected response by shoppers at the Clackamas Town Center indicate that Americans are becoming less daunted by senseless violence and, perhaps, better ready to react? Those who back broad gun rights under the Constitution's Second Amendment suggest a shift may be under way in people's readiness to respond.</p><p></p><p>In blocking Illinois's ban on concealed weapons, the last such law in the nation, Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner on Tuesday implied that self-defense readiness in public is not only protected by the US Constitution, but may be good social policy. An awareness "that many law-abiding citizens are walking the streets armed may make criminals timid," he wrote in his ruling....]</p><p></p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/why-more-people-didnt-die-clackamas-mall-shooting-225031988.html;_ylt=AmwZAupQvs9P_pINJ84NmdOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNrZ20wOXNiBG1pdANNZWdhdHJvbiBGUARwa2cDZTE1ZWU4MjUtOTJiNy0zYmQ0LTg5YTEtMzU1NmQ0NTFhMGE3BHBvcwMxBHNlYwNtZWdhdHJvbgR2ZXIDMTA3YTcxNjEtNDRiNy0xMWUyLWI2ZmUtNGRjZTFkZDZhOTg2;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/why-more-people-didnt-die-clackamas-mall-shooting-225031988.html;_ylt=AmwZAupQvs9P_pINJ84NmdOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNrZ20wOXNiBG1pdANNZWdhdHJvbiBGUARwa2cDZTE1ZWU4MjUtOTJiNy0zYmQ0LTg5YTEtMzU1NmQ0NTFhMGE3BHBvcwMxBHNlYwNtZWdhdHJvbgR2ZXIDMTA3YTcxNjEtNDRiNy0xMWUyLWI2ZmUtNGRjZTFkZDZhOTg2;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Billybob, post: 2016678, member: 1294"] [Citizens' coolheadedness and individual preparation for coping with gunfire in public settings may have curtailed the casualty count from Tuesday's shooting at a Portland, Ore., shopping mall, law officers suggested on the day after the tragedy... Does the collected response by shoppers at the Clackamas Town Center indicate that Americans are becoming less daunted by senseless violence and, perhaps, better ready to react? Those who back broad gun rights under the Constitution's Second Amendment suggest a shift may be under way in people's readiness to respond. In blocking Illinois's ban on concealed weapons, the last such law in the nation, Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner on Tuesday implied that self-defense readiness in public is not only protected by the US Constitution, but may be good social policy. An awareness "that many law-abiding citizens are walking the streets armed may make criminals timid," he wrote in his ruling....] [url]http://news.yahoo.com/why-more-people-didnt-die-clackamas-mall-shooting-225031988.html;_ylt=AmwZAupQvs9P_pINJ84NmdOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNrZ20wOXNiBG1pdANNZWdhdHJvbiBGUARwa2cDZTE1ZWU4MjUtOTJiNy0zYmQ0LTg5YTEtMzU1NmQ0NTFhMGE3BHBvcwMxBHNlYwNtZWdhdHJvbgR2ZXIDMTA3YTcxNjEtNDRiNy0xMWUyLWI2ZmUtNGRjZTFkZDZhOTg2;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3[/url] [/QUOTE]
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