I read a report that him told them about the apartment and then the police viewed the inside of the place using a ladder truck from the fire department. At that report - a day or so later - they still had not even entered the apartment.

USMCFLYR

 

The real hero of Tucson was unarmed when he manhandled the gun away from Loughner. Subsequently, the open carry Wyatt Earp saw him standing there with a Glock in his hand and described himself later as "lucky" for not shooting, putting a
point on exactly how close the actual hero came to being the victim of friendly fire.

This happened in daylight - not a darkened theater where tear gas canisters had
been deployed.

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Thoughts and prayers with the families...

How do we protect our families and ourselves?

 

Good points Jungle. When thugs walk into a convenience store to rob it while armed, the weapon is for intimidation. Look at all the youtube vids of thugs walking in, the proprietor or somebody else takes action with a firearm or quick reaction, and the thugs flee. THe thugs had NO intention of taking lives. And if they do shoot back, it's in the "gansta'" style sideways postion, while fleeing, and the only chance they have of hitting the target is by pure luck.

Whereas this person, like other incidents, had ALREADY made the decions that he was going to take lives. Because as you pointed out, insanity and lunacy. Which raises the point that IF a ccw person was present and took action, the chances of him dropping his weapon and fleeing are non existant. A gun shot or rounds flying by him probably would not have deterred him. He was hell bent and on a mission.

Taking us to the nest point.......

Yep, see the above. Who REALLY knows what would have happened? But if you've ever seen the footage from the L.A. bank robbery years ago, it plays into your initial points. That was in broad day light, NOT a dark theatre. There was no tear gas or whatever else, there was no crowd of people causing confusion in a confined area. The people shooting at bank robbers were trained police officers. They STILL didn't drop they're weapons and try to run. They simply fought back.

 

So do you have a point. Here is mine, I'll bet he couldnt have afforded all the ammo he bought if not for the pell grants and guvmint student loans. If we are going off in tangents I say let us really go for it.

 

Get your Concealed carry permit, practice 2+ times a month. After following the stories on the internet i was expecting a lot of "BAN GUNS" comments but now i think people realize the only way to stop this is being armed trained and prepared.


Really good video on concealed carry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei8OK4WdoW0

 

What would you have done to "stop this" if you were there?