JUST EIGHT MINUTES

That's how long most involved say it took for emergency responders to reach the Umpqua College Campus after the first shots rang out... just eight minutes.  

Actually, considering the small town where the college is located, eight minutes is a very short time; I give them a great deal of credit for that.  But, when you walk into a room through the only entrance and exit to that room, when everyone in that room is attentive to their teacher and subject matter at hand, where you can launch an attack from a position of total surprise and where you control entry or exit through the door where you stand... how many shots can you fire from a semi-automatic weapon in "just eight minutes" and how many people can you kill or seriously injure in the process?  

If that had been me standing in the doorway with a gun in my hand, I can guarantee you that everyone in that room would have been dead, and I'd already be in the hallway or in the next classroom, shooting more victims.  

So, how do you stop someone under those circumstances?  How do you successfully limit the amount of time during which the shooter and fire, the ammo he has available, the ability to pull the trigger... unless you have a weapon yourself?  

And therein lies the proof that the propaganda of the gun control freaks is one big lie.  Last weekend, in Chicago, a city where gun control is the strictest in the nation, 14 people were killed.  But in cities where gun control is the loosest and where citizens can obtain concealed weapons permits with little hassle, violent crime has been continuously decreasing over the past 20 years.  

Those are the undeniable facts, and all you are accomplishing by asking law-abiding citizens to give up their guns is to make sitting ducks out of them, just like the kids were in that classroom.  

Don't be to blame; don't buy into these lies and deceptions.  If you are serious about reducing gun violence in this country, (1) buy a gun and learn how to use it, (2) obtain a concealed weapons permit and learn about defensive shooting, (3) carry your weapon with you wherever you go and (4) form a committee to investigate the real causes of violent behavior in our society.