Unexpected futurama!

Yes, for a short while between firing the employees and then learning why whey were there in the first place. Then the line will go down until further people are fired in the next round. The venture capitalist's ideal company consists only of a CEO and the room cleaner (because some work has to actually be done).

The "good guy with a gun" seemingly did happen here - a civilian (i.e. neither security, police nor military) shot an active shooter and stopped the drama.

But relying on "good guy with a gun" is not a meaningful security policy as it actively encourages arming civilians. In case of an imminent threat like an active shooter - which one of the armed, non-uniformed civilians are friendly, neutral or enemies? And how do they communicate their afilliation to bystanders, fellow armed citizens and security forces - in a way that could not be exploited by an active shooter himself? Employing this as a general security policy would proliferate more guns in the society and teach everyone to be vigilant of each other, thus increasing distrust. It can also attribute to shifting the blame to victims of shootings: Why didn't they arm themselves and shoot first?

In my view, reducing the amount of guns or at least the volume of fire (think 6-shooter revolvers instead of 17-round semiautomatics) would reduce the amount of gunshot victims in the time between start of an active shooting and the arrival of security forces that would then handle the situation professionally. A stressed-out amateur with a handgun is not as helpful as a professional, and can actually increase to the drama due to increasing uncertainty in identification of friend or foe.

Without knowing any details of this case and the actual situation that happened - at one point in time, a civilian with a firearm opened fire at another (minor) with a firearm because there was a possible danger scenario near a school. How did the "good guy" in this scenario know exactly that this was the right call to open fire, and not just another possible "good guy with a gun"?

In this case, he was evidently correct, well done! But it could easily have become a terrible blue-on-blue scenario as well.

To me, this single "good guy with a gun" scenario does not justify the fact that firearms are so widespread that the "bad guy" easily got his own, and became more deadly as a result.

Specifically, a Karabiner K98 (that I have a lot of in my basement after ww2)?

The "invisible hand of the market" is such a fascinating myth, because it frames the results of capitalist endeavors as inevitable and almost holy - but as soon as the sufficiently wealthy and well-connected suffer a setback, then "government bailouts" are granted.

The invisible hand is actually very visible of you dare to look close enough.

Also great for naming files in the filesystem, and thereby giving it both context and a sorting space.

I started doing so in my company on the shared network space years ago, and many colleagues have started using this as well.

In germany in the 18th/19th century there was the extreme duelling form of "übers Sacktuch schießen" where both duellists stood very close (both gripping the same cloth) and were shooting at the same time with pistols, but only one was loaded. Since the distance was so close, missing was impossible and only random chance decided the winner/survivor.

I can see the allure because it implies that every conflict could become life-threatening, therefore everybody should weigh their words carefully.

In reality though it would emphasize the weight of trained duellists higher than those with well-informed convictions. If you cannot speak the truth because well-paid professional duellists could suppress you anytime by threat of duel (or shame of declining it).

There is a good reason why pretty much every modern civilization stopped this practise: Too much was needlessly lost (see Hamilton, Fermat, many students in the 18th century Europe...).

“I cannot be held responsible for what my goons were ordered to do! “ (Mr. Burns, the Simpsons)

"Little brother is watching you!"

Each Flock camera contains 2 GB of RAM and reportedly at least 1 gram of gold. Recycling them is important...