Well like they said about the French attack they will argue that if security had had guns at the door they could have stopped him.
Anyway, I would like to know why there was a gunfight between police before he entered.
Did the police see him beforehand and try to stop him or was it something else?
There was a policeman on patrol who engaged in a gunfight at the start of the incident. The policeman was armed and didn't stop him, which shows up the whole 'if everyone is armed this won't happen' argument for the utter bollocks it is.
The gunmen was in possession of an assault rifle for which there is no justification in a civilised country. If the doormen had been armed he could have machine gunned them from a distance because he'd have had the drop on them.
Americans who support the 2nd Amendment need to understand how real life works and stop living in a fantasy where gunfights play out like cowboy films or an episode of 24.
One or two gunmen with assault weapons and the element of surprise will kill many innocent people before someone can retaliate, and even when retaliating the police or others have the disadvantage of operating under rules of engagement and the requirement to protect innocent lives first.
There are hundreds of millions of guns in America - how many do the NRA and their supporters think there need to be for this to stop happening? A billion? Two billion?