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Originally Posted by Dilbert1234567
one issue with people carrying, lets say there are four people (very hypothetical), at a corner in a hallway, one in the first hallway and 2 in the second, one at the corner.
one person of the 2 in the hallway (the bad guy) pulls his gun and shots the other in his hallway. the person at the corner sees this, draws and shoots the bad guy. the one guy in the other hallway sees only the corner guy draw and fire (maybe he wasn't looking and thought the first shot was also from him) so he draws and shoots the corner guy, who was defending himself.
basically, this is a crappy way of saying, when everyone is armed and defending them self, how do they distinguish themselves from the aggressor. and how do we stop a massive blood bath of mistaken identity.
in the case that just happened, anyone being armed would have made it turn out better imho, however, in a smaller scale event, it can be made much worse with more guns.
just things to think about
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I believe the military has a way of viewing this. They would see this as a friendly fire incident resulting from a failure to ID the target prior to engaging. There was a situation like this in Afghanistan where a US pilot thought he was being engaged by hostile ground forces, and before getting an ID of the target, he engaged the ground forces and killed several Canadian troops.
Everybody who purchases a firearm should go through mandatory training on proper gun use and firearm saftey. Getting an ID of the target is critical in any firearms situation. If person 3 hears gunshots and then sees person 2 pull out a gun and fire in a direction that person 3 has no visual on. The initial gunshots were fired before person 2 had the weapon drawn, so person 2 either shot just himself in the foot, or person 2 is responding to the initial gunshot. Since person 2 is not dancing around cursing god with blood all over his foot, then it's clear that person 2 was responding to the initial action. At this point the question facing person 3 is, was person 2 responding to eliminate the threat or was person 2 responding as an accomplice to the threat. The best way for person 3 to get an answer is to ready his weapon and observe person 2's followup action.
There is a lot to think about in such a situation and at best only a second to think about it, but owning a firearm is a big responsibility. All the freedoms granted by the constitution come with responsibility.