>And nobody in the crowd could shoot back.
Longs gun vs. pistol. Apples & oranges vs. distance/etc.
We’re not talking Orlando nightclub or back-alley hold-up here. Unless anyone carrying was storming the hotel too, not a damn thing they could have done; especially not knowing the conditions of the room/floors around where they HOPED a shot would be placed.
Exactly. I’m for self defense and carry laws but imagine a bunch of people shooting randomly up toward the sound of bullets coming from a hotel window in the dark. Yea that. Other people who are innocent by standers are in the hotel too. Yea that would be a disaster.
The only “someone” in the crowd who would have had a chance at taking him out from more than a football field of height x more than a football field of distance would be a Seal or Ranger with a night vision scoped long gun, a tripod, or VERY steady arms.
Hard enough shot without being under fire and surrounded by a panicked crowd.