>>(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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>Except that there were armed folks there; I heard several on the news. Yet he was taken down by hand.
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One of the news stories quoted a woman who was there and was amazed no one opened fire on the gunman. She said she used to live in Texas and thinks there are even more people carrying in AZ.