Originally Posted by Rochard

How would it have played out if one fourth of the two hundred people in that theatre was armed....

A man walks in and tosses in two smoke bombs and starts firing. A fifty-five year old insurance salesman in the 25th row pulls out his firearm and starts shooting at what he think might be a shooter. He misses, instead hitting a thirteen year old boy. The father of this boy is also armed, and suddenly he's being fired at from two directions - one shooter who just came in through the emergency exit and another man somewhere behind him... But it's smoky and two hundred people are screaming, and six other people just pulled out firearms and started shooting.

Now you have the original shooter and eight other people with hand guns shooting at each other, none of properly trained in tactical situations, and no one is sure who the original shooter is or why anyone else is shooting.

Adding more guns to the situation only adds to the confusion and adds to the number of people with firearms and only adds to the amount of bullets flying - and only adds to the amount of people dead.

Anyone who thinks adding more firearms to the situation is the solution is on crack.