Perhaps you could clear up something for me. The guy with the permit, would he have had the gun in plain sight, e.g. on a gun belt, and walk around like that. If not, how does that sit with the offence of carrying a concealed weapon?
Or would he have had it in, say, the glove compt. of his car and whip it out in this emergency?

>And if the guy running around stabbing people had not dropped the knife? The citizen would have been forced to shoot and then he would be be under investigation and on trial with his life a mess (given our messed up system). No easy solution to situations like that; however, I think any citizen legally carrying a weapon would have done the same thing. I don't know of anyone who could sit back and watch murder (or attempted murder) and do nothing when they have a possibility of preventing it.
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>>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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