Typical. Our culture has made the average citizen so afraid of "guns" that they can't stand the mention of them, much less the sight of them, even less the use of them. ...Until they need them.

here's what chilled me: police were urging residents to stay indoors. several "locations" were on lockdown. police were searching cars and trunks....

The Huff Post... not exactly a gathering place of objective critical thinking. They would like to trust the police to protect them. Of course, in the real world the police always arrive after the fact, but just in time to stretch out the yellow tape...

Every day it gets worse.
Any step forward against tyranny is accompanied by 3 leaps backward toward dictatorship by politicians. Local pols justify it because they are following the path laid out for them that they must follow to get federal money. It doesn't matter that the path has already been shown to be a failure and leads over a cliff to destruction. All that matters is that it doesn't happen until after the next election.

The comment that is most revealing to me was:
"They'd just have a huge free-for-all shoot-out, where the last guy alive gets to tell the story."

If she'd used her brain, she'd know that is exactly what governments have done in every war to cover up the crimes of the winners.
No, she wants to trust governments for her safety instead of using the tools that make it possible to protect herself.