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Originally Posted by eremite06
OK, let's split hairs. Either way these two were going down.
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No it is not splitting hairs. It speaks volumes about the ability of incredibly highly trained good guy with a gun, far more trained than anyone who needed a six hour course to get his carry license, to stop a bad guy with a gun. They didn't succeed in killing the suspects with what apparently were hundreds of shots. NYC cops in a massive shootout near the Empire State Bldg succeeded in hitting 9 civilians in addition to the suspect who was standing still only a few feet from the cops. The point I am making is that extremely well trained personnel miss a whole lot. The minimally trained 70 year old in a highly chaotic situation is not going to do nearly as well as the cops and soldiers. I am troubled by the contention that if only there had been bunched of armed civilians all unloading their weapons in the theater in Colorado all would be well. Far more likely they would have had a horrific circular firing squad shooting at each other and potentially increasing the carnage.