We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.
So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning or afternoon from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.
This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.
Houston Press writer Craig Hlavaty, who has a CHL himself, checked in with a local gun instructor for his take on what might have happened in the Aurora shootings, specifically if other people were carrying guns. The post energized a lot of you to write, debating whether more guns would have stopped the carnage or added to it.
leelee_000 wrote:
If there’s one average you have to assume there are 5 below average, 5 above average so… If 10% of the population have CHL’s that would have put approx 15 gun owners in the theater that night, including the shooter that means 7 of them are above average, 7 are below average… One has an automatic weapon and is shooting EVERYONE.
I’m thinking, I know who the first targets would have been, and the 7 above average shooters are probably going to be taken out by the 7 below average shooters firing at muzzle flashes. I’m sure several more people would be caught in cross fire since now bullets are firing from all directions.
This article appears in Jul 19-25, 2012.
