Originally Posted By: ireckon
By the way, does anybody here train to defend strangers? That's basically what would happen if a CCW got to this shooter before the domestic violence occurred. I mean, does your training include identifying a bad guy with limited information? How would you have been certain the shooter here was not actually law enforcement? Do you just make a best educated guess and go for it?


Law enforcement officers announce their office, especially if they are not in uniform. If they do discharge their weapons, they're firing on people who are fighting them -- mostly armed people. Based on their actions it's almost always easy to tell the difference between a law enforcement officer and an active shooter.