[Paul F]

I like your secondary analysis Buzz. It points out that good training is a big help to prevent those instinctive reactions to situations that are new to us.

My observation is that a guy with a knife threatened to kill a guy.
A guy with a pistol almost killed a guy.
A bunch of guys with rifles might have killed a guy.
A guy with weapons training almost killed a guy by severing his leg artery with his own weapon.
A guy with no weapons made the peace.