Joseph Meehan wrote:
Likely true, at least I hope so, that guard should not have used
deadly force if there was not a clear threat.

However the point is it was a guard, not an civilian.

The guard was in civilian clothes. From news reports: " 'She probably saved
over 100 lives,' said Brady Boyd, the pastor of the New Life Church in
Colorado Springs, said on Monday."


Consider what might have happened if three or four would be heroes
were running around with guns shooting each other.


Good point. Tell you what, let's tally up the deaths from those cases where
a number of people were running around shooting each other vs. the number of
people who've died where there was only ONE person doing the shooting.

Consider the situation where someone at the scene of a crime is shot. The
person shot is shot either by the police or by a citizen. Cops shoot the
wrong person EIGHT times more often than the citizens. Why? Because when the
cops get there, they don't know who is the squint and who is the saint. Most
of the time, the people on the scene DO know.

In the case of the church shootings, it is likely that the armed citizens
could easily tell who was the evil-doer.