Only 25 percent are on duty at any given time, and many of these are in administrative positions. There just aren't enough lawmen to watch over us all. Which raises another point about Furrow. He attacked the Jewish Community Center because there was too much security at the three targets he scouted first. He knew there'd be no armed adult on the premises to protect the children.
Furrow is a lousy shot.
He fired 70 rounds at unarmed women and children and only wounded five. Had he pulled his stunt at, say, the National Shooting Club in Santa Clara, chances are he'd have been goose-stepping into hell long before he got the chance to murder postman Joseph Ileto, whom he killed on his way out of town. Two other recent news reports pour cold water on the case for gun control. The rate of violent crime in the state fell precipitously during this period, from 660.7 incidents per 100,000 people to 591.8. This has not been the case.