This is how these "open carry" morons should be handled

[hunter]

178. When the only tool you've got is a hammer...

If you've got that kind of situational awareness going on you don't need a gun. Really, you don't. Pulling out a gun just makes you a target.

The situations where a lone good guy "wins" are so rare we see them on the news. It's also a common movie fantasy. Usually it's the other way around. "Bad guys" don't have any moral inhibitions against shooting good guys, and they tend to be either suicidal or not have a clear understanding of the consequences. That's why they are "bad guys."

Here's a sad-funny story:

There was a gangster who'd been shot by the police when he was a minor. The bullet damaged his spine so he was a paraplegic in a wheelchair.

That didn't deter him from his life of crime, it only made him an adult gangster with a heroin addiction, which is very, very sad. His story might have ended better in a true first world nation.

Anyways, one of my siblings was working in fast food place when this guy rolled in with a gun. Company policy was to give the guy the cash. They did, emptying all the registers.

In his hurry to get away the guy fell off the curb and a bus ran over the hand he was holding his gun in. A good Samaritan kicked the gun away, dragged the robber out of the street and called 911.

I know people who work in hospital Emergency Rooms. Most of their gun stories are about stupid people. They can be very sad stories where innocent people died, but they all start with someone who shouldn't have had a gun.