[Sharrukin]

If it ended in a shootout, it would only take a few incidents like that to make it impossible for law enforcement to continue.

You are correct that it is a horrible situation but what else could anyone do? If they start seizing weapons it is for a purpose and stopping it sooner rather than later would be the least bloody.

[MrB]

If they start seizing weapons it is for a purpose

---

"Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians." -Alexander Hope, from the novel "Hope" by L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman