I think your right, once this guy pulled a gun and took even just one shot, he would have been put down pronto if folks were armed. Maybe too, some of these criminals would think twice before pulling a gun if they knew what was waiting for them.
Anyway, this stuff is becoming all to frequent, innocent people are not safe in court rooms, schools, church, day care centers, the work place, etc. from criminals with guns, yet the bleeding hearts try to prevent us from protecting ourselves but 'their society' doesn't protect us as much as the criminal. Screw that.
You make a very good point. Also consider the fact of how nuch mayhem has been caused in the last couple of days by just two individuals armed with handguns. Just think of what a well-trained AQ or MS-13 terror cell armed with full-auto weapons and RPG-7s could do. It's a sobering thought.
If the Dhimmicrat leftists and the slimy Republican sellouts who side with them finally achieve their goal of disarming the citizenry, we'll be even more wide open to a Beslan-type incident than we are now. But that's what these folks want, since it will enable them to grab power on a permanent basis.