[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Have to be very quick to identify one’s self, especially with added risk of being shot from another person carrying, thinking you are one of the shooters.

Why do authorities ALWAYS report more than one shooter? Do they want armed citizens to stand down or do they want them to start picking each other off?

[going hot]

Authorities give their best and latest sitrep (usually) and often later the facts change.

If there are multiple shooters at a shooting, and the on site persons involved state so, then there are in fact multiple shooters on site, until confirmed or refuted.

The problem, if one is a reacting shooter to the original shooter, is being identified as the original, and then taken out by a civilian shooter, or perhaps by a true second shooter.

Definitely not a good pickle to find one's self in.

[justa-hairyape]

Think they assume everyone with a gun drawn, is a shooter until cleared. So perhaps a few guns were drawn in self defense, no doubt. A little longer and we might have responded with a tank or two. Hey, this is Texas.