>>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17623078/
>It would have been better if the citizens had guns too. Here in Memphis we had a guy go crazy last summer. He was stabbing several people in the grocery store where he had just been fired. He had a good sized butcher knife and was chasing another would be victim in the parking lot. However, one of our "good old boys" happened to be armed with a carry permit and a .9 mm. He pointed his gun at the stabber and ordered him to drop it. The guy complied and nobody was shot. This scenario gets played out all over the south, but never in the great Northeast because only criminals and cops can carry guns up there....
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>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670415/posts

Because one good-willed vigilante saved the day it doesn't mean it's a good idea. The knife-wielding madman would have had a gun then, with far worse consequences for his victims. Also, the vigilante wouldn't have held the ace card then. Are you advocating going back to the old West?