More Americans think that an armed civilian would be their best protection in the case of a live shooting event than anything else, according to a recent Convention of States Action poll.
The poll found that 41.8% of respondents believe that an armed citizen would be their best protection if they were caught in a mass shooting event. Just 25.1% thought that the next most common response—local law enforcement—would be their best option.
There was a clear partisan divide in the poll, however. 70.4% of Republican respondents felt that an armed civilian would provide more reliable protection from a mass shooter than any other source, while just 16.3% of Democratic respondents reported the same.
Nearly two-thirds of voters say they are not confident that their local law enforcement and government officials could stop a violent person before they started a mass shooting. Of all respondents, 35.3% said they were “not very confident,” while 26.9% said they were “not confident at all” in state and local law enforcement.
Yes, Democraps are QUIET on this one !!!! That’s WHY Good people need a GUN to Stop Bad People !!!!!!
Teachers need a GUN & maybe those Kids would still be ALIVE since the police did Nothing !!!!!
Anybody who puts ANY faith in a corrupt government that has failed so monumentally on every level is a fool.
Retired LEO here, and whenever I hear/see video of something like this, I always try to give them the benefit of the doubt figuring I wasn’t there and don’t try to Monday morning quarterback. But what video I have seen leaves little to no room to defend the officers lack of action. Completely disgusted with what I saw. Even years ago, the training was changed from the old wait for backup til you go in, to if you hear shooting, you go toward it even if you are by yourself because every second could save lives. I cannot blame any public outcry against the police over this matter, and only hope that they don’t judge all cops over this obvious extreme screw up by pretty much every officer on scene that day. Ulvalde needs to clean house and get rid of them, from the top person in charge that day down to the officers that failed to protect. In an event like that, you don’t need to wait for the supervisor to get there to tell you that you need to get your ass in gear and do something! Maybe it was a lack of training, or the fear that the public, which does harshly judge officers sometimes, and they were in a damn if you do or damn if you don’t scenario, but this was a situation where common sense should have kicked in and all that shit should not have mattered and action should have been taken. Even if a lone officer with just a pistol and basic academy training could have made a difference if he had used basic officer training and taken some/any kind of action!
Slippery slope here