I have heard enough to know. As a crisis professional, I was trained to manage large-scale crises by Texas A&M University instructors. I sat in a room with 200 plus first responders, police officers, K’9 officers. That was December of 2016. We were trained to expect someone to drive into a crowd with a van containing a bomb, wielding a knife. After I received that training, driving away, my first thought was, I need a gas mask, a bullet-proof vest and I need a torniquet in my car, in my possession, at all times.
The shooters are just lunatics, you say. No: they are armed and emboldened.