text:  Maybe, what's the point? But there's a lot of research that shows that that's perhaps a very American solution to this issue. Like, if we're not going to get rid of the guns, at least give the folks who are caught in these horrible moments a shot at survival. This happened in Newtown, where the gunman had to reload. And when he reloaded, and even though you can be very quick with reloading, even those few precious seconds, they call it a critical pause. Some kids escaped. They ran out of the classroom.