No, More Guns in the NYC Subway Wouldn’t Have Helped
We need to have a serious discussion about the nation’s mental health crisis
Life is not like Call of Duty.
One would think that saying this was unnecessary, but one would be wrong.
Because once again, after a mass public shooting, fools are insisting that if those on the scene had been armed, large-scale casualties could have been avoided.
Because to these voices, life is precisely like a video game.
It is a place where the bad guy comes around the corner, and you blast him before he can kill your fellow students, co-workers, or, in the latest case, fellow straphangers on the New York City Subway.
At least that’s the way Marjorie Taylor Greene sees it.
The Congresswoman from Georgia is convinced that if it weren’t for New York’s strict gun control laws, someone on that train could have taken out the shooter, who, as I write, was just captured.
Though no one has died, thankfully, from the shooting, 23 were injured. The fact that Greene believes more guns in a crowded commuter tube or on the subway platform would have reduced that number rather than expanded it suggests her high school and the University of Georgia failed…
