[Louis Foxwell]

We know with absolute certainty that armed citizens would have stopped the rampage in its infancy. Gun free zones are free kill zones for mass murderers.

[arthurus]

There was an armed off duty police officer in the club. He returned fire. He did not stop the carnage but he surely reduced it. Mateen's retreat to the bathroom and consequent narrowing of his field of fire was in response to that officer's action.

I suppose that doesn't fit the story the left wants told because the presence of the officer, while reported in the second set of MSM reports disappeared later. I am guessing he was a hired security guard. Clubs like that like to have off duty cops as their security guards. Gun free zones aren't "gun free" for police, on or off duty.