Where are your guns?

ml1 said:

not to mention that there was some amount of good fortune that a) the guy who intervened didn't himself get killed, and b) no innocent bystanders got caught in the crossfire.

(Message me if this is inappropriate, and I'll remove the post.)

I don't think it's inappropriate.  It's actually common sense.  In a shooting scenario, when adrenaline is running high, brandishing a weapon isn't safe for ANYONE. It's not as though the "good guys" are in "good guy" uniforms (aside from the police, that is), or wearing a "good guy with a gun" t-shirt.  Nobody knows that the person with a gun isn't the violent criminal.

it's kind of amusing in retrospect because no one got hurt, but this happened in Texas a few years ago.  A bunch of open carry activists walked up to a fast food joint carrying guns.  The panicked workers hid in a freezer and called 911.  Then the gun nuts had the balls to complain that cops treated them like criminals.  Because somehow the cops are supposed to know that a gang of guys brandishing firearms are a bunch of "good guys" and not armed robbers.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Open-Carry-Demonstrators-Scare-Fort-Worth-Employees-257751871.html