You weren't there, neither was I.
It's easy to TALK about going John Wayne from a keyboard. It's very different in reality.
“It’s easy to TALK ...”
That is *so* tiresome. You have no idea who I am or what I’ve seen.
And what I see regularly, from the Columbine atrocity to the pass that meth labs get in my town, is arrant cowardice. They could bust those meth labs if they weren’t afraid, just like the Chicago cops were afraid of Capone.
But unless we are paid law-enforcement officers, we may not be trained for that.
Those people in the restaurant who were shot at are paying (tax money) for that guy to be prepared for that situation - they paid for his training and his time at the pistol range.