While many survivors, activists and politicians see firearms restrictions as the path forward to stopping mass shootings, there are some surprising dissenters to this familiar line of thinking.
Within mere seconds of almost every mass shooting, a clarion call for more gun control instantaneously breaks out on social media and reverberates throughout political circles.
“It’s maddening that we go straight to a gun control debate,” Evan Todd, a survivor of the notorious 1999 Columbine High School shooting, told me on this week’s episode of “Higher Ground With Billy Hallowell” podcast . “Because, in the end, that will not solve the problem.”Mr. Todd knows firsthand what true depravity and wickedness look like.
“The first thing that we should be saying as parents is [that] we need to secure and protect our schools,” Mr. Todd said. “That is the first step we should be taking.” Rather than going after guns, Mr. Todd wants to see armed responses more prepared to confront the threats in schools and other localities.
“They were so comfortable with not being pursued or stopped at that moment that they just moved nonchalantly and were murdering people,” Mr. Todd said.
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