What should happen to the shooter?

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29. And, I understand that.

However, in the real world, we should be happy that the man committed misdemeanor trespass, and as a result of his crime, he stopped a mass murder. All such judgements should be weighed not only on the legal scales of justice, but with some deference to the nature of the outcome. In my simple, personal judgement, I find no fault in the outcome and only wish that he had been able to stop the terrorist one death sooner. If that makes me a bad Democrat or an impure liberal, I will wear the scarlet "G."

The facts of life and law, in our country today, that in most places firearms are legal and present in civilian hands. You don't have to like it, but you do have to face the facts. It is up to the people whether we take a more restrictive approach to firearms ownership, as our other, and possibly more civilized, Democratic neighbors have. I would prefer that there had been no guns in that mall or any other mall on any given day, but wishing it does not make it so.