No doubt there were brave souls on hand that day.
Some naturally tend to run towards the smoke while others run away and there is nothing inherently wrong with either action in the general sense.
The poster brings up some good and valid points regading the risk one faces getting involved in something like this where the bad guys may not be well identified and a good guy can be taken down or out by another good guy or by a cop.
I once had a forum discusson with a freeper who claimed that he never left the house with less than 4 hi cap mags of .45 and his pistol. He wanted to be prepared to engage shooters in public places such as malls, etc. IMO, that isn’t enough if one really expects trouble but too much for mere self defense. If one really feels the need to prepare for four reloads, maybe one should think more carefully about where one travels and try more to avoid dangerous sitations?
I think poster’s question is a very intelligent question for any person, especially those without police or military training to consider: At what point should one consider NOT inserting themselves into a gunfight?
Thank you. I don’t have military or police training. I certainly didn’t expect to be told I should tear up my carry permit in the very first reply. I thought I had heard one guy, saw him interviewed on FOX News this morning, that after he took the gun out of the shooters hand, someone tackled him and held him down until they quickly he was NOT the shooter, he may have even been the guy that went into Walgreens to buy cigarettes and was actually carrying and the shooting started while he was in Walgreens, so I thought my questions were not of some chicken who should tear up her carry permit.
I have been catching up on the volumes of threads from the Tucson incident and lo and behold, this post caught my eye.
I was that Freeper. Point of correction:
- It was 3 hi-cap mags of .40 cal.
- The example that I gave was not to engage shooters, but to remove my family from a total shtf scenario that develops into a mob situation...AND you may have to fight your way out of Dodge...AND it may take a while to get out of Dodge.
- As a peace officer who is commissioned by two law enforcement agencies, I may choose to engage an active shooter depending on the setting, law enforcement presence and if I did not have my family with me to protect. But that was not what we discussed on that thread.
Other than all that, you were sort of accurate in your representation of the thread content.