[billhilly]

"It's time to open up the Armories and start assigning weapons to people."

What would you shoot? Who? How would you know? If fifty percent of the people in the metro area were shot, the odds are fifty/fifty that the sniper would be one of them. His odds are far preferable.

What a lousy idea.

[unixfox]

Your right we can't have ordinary citizens carrying arms and trying to protect themselves, it might piss off the government.

[Clovis_Skeptic]

If "everyone" had a weapon, the sniper's sniping, would cease. Not because someone shot him, rather because someone would/could shoot him!