Quote:In a nut shell, yes, that is exactly what I'm saying.


It's been a while since I've been to a rave, but from my recollection, it's very dark, very loud, and there are these strobe light things that make it very difficult to see clearly. With that and the loudness of the music and acoustics of buildings like that, it would be difficult to identify a bad guy with a gun against the back drop of 300 good guys with guns.


I know, I saw Face/Off too... it seems like all you have to do is dual wield your golden hand guns and dive over the bar as you place 12 slugs right in the torso of the bad guy, with the precision grouping of a sniper, topping it off with the kill shot right between the eyes as you wink at the cute blonde you have just heroically saved from imminent doom---


But yeah, that's not how life works... there is this thing called friendly fire which has been known to happen, even with our highly trained military personnel.


But yeah, 300 nra members are totally gonna all be heros and dead eyes, and know who the bad guy is, nobody will mistake an innocent holding a gun in the middle of a dark loud chaotic rave as the bad guy. /s

You, essentially, added nothing to the conversation with that comment. How much experience do you have with weapon? When was the last time you shot one? Have you fired one? It sounds like you're speaking out of inexperience and pretending it's based on how "life works".


It doesn't take a big, choreographed scene to shoot someone. Absent a no-light situation, I would be confident that I (and millions of others) could've shot him early in his rampage.


I'm also not saying that none of the things you mentioned are impossibilities, either. I'm telling you that they're unlikely. I wonder how much "friendly fire" would have mattered to the fifty dead party-goers. I can't understand the logic behind not doing anything to save your life or that of another is a better situation than shooting at the murderer taking shots at innocents. Also, how many people do you think would have be behind him? Do you think they flocked toward him? I guarantee you that he would have been standing alone as others run for their life.

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