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I had already tried as a youth to enlist in the [Armed] Forces as an officer cadet, which would have allowed me to enter the arsenal and precede Lortie in a rampage. They refused me because of asociality.

That's why these type of incidents won't ever be eliminated in society, where people have access to firearms. The only hope of reducing them is to make sure the things that cause these young minds to snap (and they are most common to young people) are reduced in some way, and that we work together in society to reach out to them long before they start on this path to madness.

As I keep repeating , even in Quebec we've had four such shooting rampages - even with strong gun control. This proves gun control is of rather limited value in stopping these events.

If concealed/carry was permitted at Columbine, Virginia Tech, or various malls throughout the US, we'd have a lot less shootings happening. The ones that might still happen wouldn't have near the bodycounts because people like me, concealed/carry legally permitted, responsible and law abiding gun owners would terminate the scumbags of this topic.

New York City police statistics show that simply hitting a target, let alone hitting it in a specific spot, is a difficult challenge. In 2006, in cases where police officers intentionally fired a gun at a person, they discharged 364 bullets and hit their target 103 times, for a hit rate of 28.3 percent, according to the department’s Firearms Discharge Report. The police shot and killed 13 people last year.

In 2005, officers fired 472 times in the same circumstances, hitting their mark 82 times, for a 17.4 percent hit rate. They shot and killed nine people that year.

In all shootings — including those against people, animals and in suicides and other situations — New York City officers achieved a 34 percent accuracy rate (182 out of 540), and a 43 percent accuracy rate when the target ranged from zero to six feet away. Nearly half the shots they fired last year were within that distance.

In Los Angeles, where there are far fewer shots discharged, the police fired 67 times in 2006 and had 27 hits, a 40 percent hit rate, which, while better than New York’s, still shows that they miss targets more often they hit them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/
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The fact that a young man decided he was going to take out innocent victims and kill himself ... to be famous ... is the issue here.

Those are people that do regular time at firing ranges, and have fairly high quality weapons.
If they can miss more than they hit , any normal civilian is going to be a lot more dangerous in that situation (which all those officers were not facing) .
Fantasizing about being Charles Bronson or Clint Eastwood must be nice, it's just not very realistic or effective.

I'd be willing to bet that your average CCW holder goes to the range at least as much if not more than your average cop. Thing is, in every situation where an armed citizen has been around a rampage shooter, they've stopped the situation without hitting anyone else.