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You've touched a raw nerve in society, Tim. If your are expected to help, you must be permitted to carry where you may be needed. A lot of folks apparently can't reconcile that with current policies about guns on campus and other institutional places.

Secondly, those who would assist in incidents must not be in mortal fear of retribution from the legal system. Good guy stops bad guy = no case, criminal or civil. Somebody has to give up some rights to head these things off. How about the bad guys and their families swallow this little addendum to the social contract instead of the majority?

It appears that increasing terroristic confrontations within the borders of the U.S. are something society is going to have to deal with in the future. In time, hopefully there will emerge new public policy to deal with citizen participation in what has been heretofore relegated to law enforcement. The rapid expansion in recent years of concealed carry programs in most states is a prima facie indicator the tide has turned in favor of law abiding citizens to act on their own in self defense.