Vince Flynn and Brad Thor are not scared of guns.
Sanford just flat pisses me off. Ultralib, smug a$$hole with the bland assumption that the police are there to shield him from the politically undesirable.
One of the most glaring things I read of his is where some "bad guy" is barricaded in a hospital room. The "good guy" has a police sniper hiding behind a towel cart in a corridor a few feet away and behind from the good guy. The sniper fires. The good guy then proceeds to carry on a normal conversation, instead of rolling around on the floor in agony, making wheepling noises, from his almost burst eardrums...
Sanford is the kind of twobit Liberal bumrammer that gives a revolver a safety catch , for his hero to play with when he's nervous.