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Cynthia in San Francisco
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Fred, this monster let off a smoke bomb, and many people could not see him through the haze. If a dozen people had started shooting, one or two close to the front may have gotten off a shot or two, but he was in full body armor. And, when good guy shooters 1 & 2 started shooting, how would good guy shooters 3 & 4 know that 1 & 2 weren't in on it with the gunman? How would guys 5 & 6 & 7 & 8... know that 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 weren't in on it? Then, what happens when the cops arrive, and they find 13 shooters shooting? What do they do? This scenario seems to me very much like a mini-war zone, a little whiff of Somalia right on our doorstep.
If Americans carrying guns everywhere became very popular, I could even imagine "troll" gunmen starting gun fights, and, in the midst of smoke and carnage, provoking anonymous good guy shooters to shoot it out while they slip away. But instead of the internet, where they'd begin a flame war, they'd be using real bullets.
"our citizens were armed and represented the greatest standing army" A standing army is very different than millions of independent and armed Americans, with no military training, discipline or command structure, which describes our current situation. .No-one on the left or the right is going to try to reintroduce conscription in today's political climate.
Besides, the Japanese did not invade Ameica because they were content to take out the Pacific Fleet in Hawaii (not because they feared armed citizens), which threatened their growing Asian empire: they were not interested in attacking the American mainland, at least not at that point.