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In reply to the discussion: Well, at least there wasn't some fool with a concealed carry permit that started shooting back [View all]FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)31. Actually, Old Man is most likely correct. No one would know who the bad guy was if
everyone had pulled guns. Who shot first? Who's the bad guy? Its dark and smoky. One person pulls a gun and starts shooting, someone else pulls a gun and starts shooting at him thinking they're the bad guy. Then someone else pulls a gun thinking that guy is the bad guy and starts shooting at him, and so on. Never mind the incredibly high number of stray bullets flying and ricocheting around. All in a dark and smoky theater.
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1-Old-Man
Jul 2012
OP
Actually, Old Man is most likely correct. No one would know who the bad guy was if
FarLeftFist
Jul 2012
#31
Plain-clothes or off-duty cops have been killed by other cops arriving on scene before.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jul 2012
#41
You are correct. And if officers arrived in the middle of it, they wouldn't know who the bad guy was
phleshdef
Jul 2012
#13
It seems to me that the shooter had this all figured out. He figured that there would be
CTyankee
Jul 2012
#36
I always like to tell the story at the Gabby Giffords shooting. There was someone who came
jillan
Jul 2012
#18