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In the western states (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, etc), the time from a 911 call to a cop may be 30 minutes. It may also be hours depending upon the circumstance.

So there is some consideration needed for ranchers and others that do have a livelihood out there and can't wait for the police to show up.

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Which only makes the argument that perhaps your access to firearms should be associated with actual proven need versus want. I don't get why this debate even exists though. Unless the second amendment is overturned firearms will always be legal and that's an unlikely thing to happen. If killing kids didn't make people care enough to outlaw them, then killing more isn't likely to increase the desire to outlaw firearms. Repealing the second amendment is a very, very unlikely scenario. Someone could walk into a nursery full of newborn babes tomorrow surrounded by a full tactical SWAT team, murder the entire SWAT team and babies and the response would only be that the SWAT team needs more weapons to protect against the killers and that perhaps the babies should have been armed as well. America has a hammer problem where they see the only solution to violence is more violence.

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