Compare and Contrast

Sanjay Sanghoee argues that if a police shootout could be such a clusterfuck it would be so much worse if "untrained" civilian gun owners were also shooting at the evil git. Ya know, blood in the streets and all that.

NYPD officers shoots one evil git and nine bystanders on crowded street.

CCW Permit Holder shoots and wounds two clueless armed robbers in a crowded Orlando Internet Cafe. No bystanders harmed.

It's a bullshit argument Sanjay, but you knew that. Mine may be as well, but the difference is I acknowledge these incidents are fluid, stressful, and that average police officer isn't really trained to deal with them any more than an average permit holder. But police officers manage to rise to the occasion, as do permit holders and a permit holder couldn't have made the situation worse in New York City. It was already about as bad as it could get.