With so many law-abiding people carrying guns, …

the police have to expect that the first responders to an active shooter will be civilians.

Just as I have the responsibility to differentiate between the bad guys, the victims, and other first responders, so do the police.

The police will have to coordinate with the people who are already engaging the bad guy. For anyone, civ or cop, to hold back while people are being lined up and executed would be wrong. The people ‘in there’ are our neighbors. Don’t arrogantly and stupidly expect us to ‘stay out of the way’.

Deal with it.