Remember the shooters in India? Remember the school assaulted by mooselimbs? At those scenes more than one was running around pinging folks. The perps carried auto-weapons with extra mags. They continued murdering people for a long time before the forces to stop them finally got control of the situation.
America probably has several thousand armed mooselimb fanatics just waiting for word to start slaughtering people at shopping malls and easy venues for slaughtering unarmed people, to bring the economy to a grinding halt. In such a shooting situation, only shooting at a perp close by so you can take them out and get their weapons in to the hands of other potential victims who should be told to take defensive positions is the scenario I keep running through my writer's mind.
If folks are unarmed, they're out gunned. If some folks have CCW revolvers where perps are using AKs, well, the situation changes to one of battle zone where you're out gunned and in need of 'equalizers'. America is about to find out what these murderous mooselimbs want for all of us. I think the shooting in AZ and even the Texas Army base were not the sort of shooting we're about to experience.
My only precaution to fellow CCW holders is carry extra mags and on't expect you're carrying to stop a mugging, because battle zones I fear are in our future in the heartland. And teach your family members what weapons look like, how they operate, and how to reload the various types. Oh, and if you find you're in a battle zone, let those who have been in such situations before direct the action if they enlist your assistance. We have a lareg number of vets in the heartland.
Your post 53 is something that has been bothering me for years. How easy it would be for those goblins to do what you wrote about, and how unprepared the American populace is for it. My wife, for instance, never carries though she has a permit, and laughs at me when I—as I always do—carry my gun when we are shopping.
Thanks.