Swickard: Allow us to shoot back

Police will respond in minutes - but you only have seconds

Commentary by Michael Swickard, Ph.D. - Americans act surprised that a gunman shot up a theatre and murdered a bunch of people. It was another “fish in the barrel” shooting. We have had many of them lately where only the gunman was armed. Everyone else was abiding the gun laws except the gunman. Did having everyone in the audience unarmed make them safer? Not in this case. The criminals are armed despite the laws. In the Old West this shooting would have been stopped in a hail of return fire. Do you want to die watching everyone else around you being killed and have no way to fight back or do you want to be able to fight back? Know this: you do not have to fight back, but you should allow me to do so. This nation’s gun laws are killing us. Michael Swickard

Swickard: Allow us to shoot back