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> Shooter kills 10 people shooting back at him

I think that would make a fascinating scenario. If you end up with one dead shooter full of holes and 10 armed citizens blowing smoke from their barrels but otherwise unscratched, that would be ideal.

It would be interesting to see if that really happened, tho’. Perhaps instead you’d end up with eleven people on the ground full of holes, some of them bleeding out.

Or worse still, eleven people in this room bleeding out, plus two or three more in the room next door.

Don’t get me wrong: I like the idea of people having the right to concealed carry: I wish we had that right here in NZ. I also think that the best time to find out the likely outcomes of these scenarios is before they happen, under simulation.

This is why I find this ABC show fascinating: it sets out to simulate one of these scenarios. I wish I could watch it. It would be interesting to see what assumptions they build into their scenario, and how realistic it is when played out.