Quote Originally Posted by Sensei View Post
Got it - a host or hostess to stop an active shooter at the door. Maybe a gun free zone sign to really reinforce the point.
No, you don't always have to have someone armed at the gate, lets face it, there are soft targets and then there are softer targets.
Sometimes anybody at the door is going to make all but the most determined shy away.
This guy isn't the Florida Gay Bar shooter. This guy came in, likely from his history already intoxicated and got ejected. I'm guessing he had trouble with someone inside the Bar, perhaps even one of the people he later shot. He went home and then got a gun and came back and started shooting. When they found him seventy miles away, guess where he was? In another Bar.
The chances are much, much better that had someone refused him service initially and done so at the door, he would have went on his sorry way and pursued killing the rest of his liver somewhere else and likely without incident.
Sometimes turning this crap away at the door is a lot less trouble than what happens once you let it in.