Yes. It’s true. There have been, and will be, times when a bad guy with a gun will be stopped by a good guy with a gun.
But it is crystal clear that the last thing -- the very last thing -- that the Shootout at the Fashion Place Mall needed was more armed people.
As best we civilians can piece it all together, it seems that there was an unfortunate encounter of members of two rival gangs at the Murray shopping center. (That’s not a sentence many of us ever expected we’d be writing.