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Not sure how to handle this risk, but disarming everybody isn't it.

The way you handle it is not to draw at the drop of a hat. You draw when you are in the immediate area of an active situation and then you aim and fire. If, for example, you heard shots on the other side of a store, you don't draw and then go running across the store waving a gun. Good carry classes teach this stuff. If you are not defending yourself you are just 'brandishing a weapon' and that is a crime. If everyone waited to drawn until they had a criminal target in clear sight then the situation of several confused people waving guns is avoided. You don't draw if you are not sure of the situation. Yous should not even draw unless YOU PERSONALLY are being directly threatened. Concealed carry is not intended for citizens stopping an 'active shooter'. The laws are not set up for that either. It is a very gray area.

I’ve always found the cop shows with detectives in civilian clothes chasing perps through crowds, gun in hand, interesting. How is a cop, or an armed civilian, for that matter, supposed to know who the good guys are?