Some people actually bother to be PROactive rather than REactive.
And that's ideally how you want to live. I've told people left and right, if you've got a chance to fight off your attacker who's armed with a gun, then it's always better to fight, because you'll never outrun a bullet.
The senior at the University of Utah gets dressed and then decides which gun is easiest to conceal under his clothes.
If he's wearing a T-shirt, he'll take a smaller, low-profile gun to class. If he's wearing a coat, he may carry a different weapon, he said.
He started carrying a gun to class after the massacre at Virginia Tech, but the student says he's not part of the problem of campus shootings and could instead be part of a solution.
Nick, who asked not to be fully identified so his fellow students wouldn't know he carried a gun, says he has had a concealed weapons permit for more than three years. But it was Seung-Hui Cho's murderous campus rampage that made him take a gun to class.
"Last year, after Virginia Tech, I thought 'I'm not going to be a victim,' " Nick said.
Students like Nick leave me with a feeling of pride in today's youth. Not all of them are MySpace idiots with no idea of how the real world works.
If you want to know what the difference is, if you're shot in the back, chances are, you're going down. Whether that is from them hitting you in the spine, or just hitting you in a vital organ. Would you rather chance the shooters aim, or your ability to crack them across the back of the head with a chair?
Now, there's also the "fight or flight" inside of you. When someone's pointing a gun at you or someone else, you have only seconds to react and you have to have the internal courage to stand up and fight back. If you don't have that, you're better off running.
But, if you don't have that, you certainly don't have the right to tell someone who wants to fight back that they can't be armed.
Travis
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