"Armed Civilians Complicate Things"

That's what the cops say about several armed people who were present at the Wal-Mart store in Thornton, CO, when a gunman started shooting and killed three people before unconcernedly walking out and going away. Unfortunately, none of them confronted the shooter. But the cops were more concerned about how long it took them to review the security videos when they saw people other than the shooter with guns than they were with finding the guy actually shooting. By the time they found him on the videos, he was long gone. I suspect it was the higher ranking cops who felt this way, rather than the "rank and file," who, being "in the trenches" as it were, better understand things. Why those armed civilians didn't shoot the shooter, I don't know. It's a big store. Maybe they just weren't where he was and the whole thing happened too quickly for them to locate and "neutralize" (kill) him. If one of them had been in the right place, maybe he might not have been able to kill all three of those people. Dead men don't kill many people. (Denver Post)