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Here, the criminal, Thomas Crooks, was IN FACT taken out by a good guy (two of them as I understand it) with a gun.

Yes. That’s exactly what I said.

The point is that they did not, they could not, prevent the crime. The best they could do is perhaps lessen the crime, limiting the number of shots he could get off before he joined one of his victims at the pearly gates.

Now put the gun in the hands of a barely trained civilian “good guy” and how many bystanders is that good guy going to take out while trying to get the bad guy.

Guns in the hands of untrained civilians offer little protection to themselves or the general public.

—Peter

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