The killing and dying in an active shooter event happen before police can intervene

Did we really need a study to confirm this?  Are we that stupid? Well, no, not all of us!

It is unlikely that Huffpost will ever really understand what this means because they have an agenda that is inconsistent with the solution.  But for many of us it is a real no-brainer:  this is why gun-control is a fool's paradise.  This is why people need to protect and exercise their right to self-defense and and to keep and bear arms.

"Overall, 66.9 percent of the incidents had ended before police even arrived at the scene and could engage the shooter."

When seconds count, the police are only minutes away!

It is not their fault, and it is not their job.  Don't believe the slogan:  To serve, perhaps; to protect, an empty and impossible promise meant to make people feel safer when they are not. The only ones they protect are those who merit their continual attention; the wealthy who can provide their own security or the public officials who have police protection.  We - those of us who live in the real world -  cannot allow ourselves to believe that those benefits redound to us; we cannot abrogate our responsibility for our own safety, we cannot pass it on to someone else.  We can pretend it is so, but reality will have its way.  This article and study show that.

In the best of all possible worlds, no evil would befall us.  In case you have not been paying attention, choose to avert your eyes and cover your ears, we do not live in that world.  You can try to pray it away, protest it away, meditate it away, chant it away.  You can choose to look at the beauty around us and deny the ugliness.  You can find righteousness in pacifism in the face of the threat, hoping that turning the other cheek will earn you a place in heaven (sounds a lot like martyrdom to me).  That is your individual right and I would not deny it to you. Your life may mean so little to you that you will give it up willingly in the hope of some fool's reward.

But my right is to stand up, not to lie down and accept it.  It, the evil, may kill me, but it will not find a sheep for easy slaughter, I will not go quietly.  I have too much to fight for.