An “ammunition customer” walked into a gun shop in Louisiana the other day and started shooting. “I don’t know why,” says the sheriff. According to the Associated Press, here’s what happened next:
Seven other people, all firearms-trained employees of the gun store and shooting range, fired at Williams [the aforementioned customer] before he was killed outside the building, Lopinto [the sheriff] said. Two people were wounded.
So much for the “good guys with guns” solution to gun violence favored by the NRA and other “pro-2nd Amendment” folks. Seven firearms trained employees returned fire and six seem to have missed (maybe all seven, it really isn’t clear), two people wounded in the exchange. Imagine being caught in that crossfire.
Long ago in a now nearly forgotten century when my hands were a little steadier than they are now I could shoot expert ratings with rifles but still couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with a handgun, and that was on static ranges where nothing was moving and nobody was shooting back. It isn’t easy. Most shots in a firefight, except in the movies or at point-blank range, miss. Anyone in the neighborhood’s at risk.
Duck. Better, run.
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