Dustin wrote: "Additionally, FBI statistics show that most gunfights last well less than a minute. Since the Police will be minutes away at best they'll probably arrive to either find the shooter subdued, or the armed citizen among those lying on the ground." As a smart college student, as you seem, you know very well that you can make stastics say anything you want. When you talk about gun fights, are the drive by shootings included? How about the drug deal that went bad and someone got shot? What about the domestic situation where the husband kills his wife and maybe himself? If you are going to give stats, I want to know stats and how they relate to the situation at hand. If you are going to talk about school shootings, I want to know exactly how many of the school shootings lasted under a minute? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any