>>(also wouldn't hurt to have more good-guys prepared to intervene when a nut-job shows up assuming he's the only one armed and dangerous in the zone. Cops make a lot of enemies, but you don't see a lot of people going in to shoot up cop bars. I'd bet if that had been an NRA rally he would not have got that many shots off... or been taken alive.)
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>Something new to me, it seems being in a real, high-stress situation can compromise even the best-trained people who have not been in such a situation. Aside from the psychological factors, apparently you lose fine motor skills so you get cases of people forgetting, or being unable to release manual safeties from their weapons. I don't know the average makeup of an NRA rally, but those members who hadn't been in a live-fire situation up to that point might not be of much use even if armed.

True, but the odds are much higher that one of the not-freezing ones will shoot back - and thereby at least disturbing the accuracy of attackers shots if not stopping them.