When a Glock semi-automatic pistol can shoot 33 rounds without reloading, killing dozens of people

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32. Macho fantasy?!!

First of all, I think macho is a masculine term and the people who were running to gunfire were women; I've read that the principal was killed when she tried to stop him and that all of the adults killed were women.

Second, this wasn't a fantasy at all, it was real life. She went beyond the call of duty to charge a shooting lunatic--and you are happy that she had to do so unarmed, because it's possible that someone might have gotten hit by crossfire?!!

But even if it was a guy, it was well beyond macho. And it was not done to aggrandize anyone's ego; it was done out of horrifying necessity. If you would put down that cartoon lens, you might be able to look past the silly stereotypes to reality.

Let's apply this type of logic to another subject.

Doctor: If we do the operation, we have a better chance of stopping your cancer than by any other means.

You: Because we all know that no one ever dies or is injured in surgery!

A gun would have given the heroic principal and other women in that school a fighting chance against that maniac. It is the single best way to stop an active shooter, as a general rule. While I am sure that there are many who would want these women to have to engage in hand-to-rifle combat in defense of a child they loved, I am not among them. And of course there are associated risks, there are risks with everything.