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A gun doesn't stop you from getting shot, it just gives you a chance to shoot back.
Yes, I know you were being sarcastic.
Having a gun probably also gives you a better chance of being shot either by suicide, accident, or making yourself seem like more of a threat.
And giving you false confidence making you do more stupid choices that lead you to danger that you otherwise would never get yourself into
That largely depends on if you're their intended target.
But anyone fetishizing being the "good guy with a gun" would just piss their pants.
If I was carrying and there was an active shooter, I sure as hell would run or hide before fighting.
You don't know who the active shooter actually is. Maybe the guy you saw with a gun is a plainclothes or off duty cop who is responding to the actual active shooter. Maybe there is more than one shooter, and confronting the one you see makes you a target for the one you don't. Maybe the cops find you after shooting the active shooter, and assume you are the perpetrator.
For clarification, I don't carry a gun, I just used myself as an example to simplify the text.
If anyone has an darned good self defense training, especially with firearms, they should be doing what you say exactly. You hide or GTFO dodge if there's an active shooter. You're not going to be a hero and just as likely to end up shot. Especially if they're using a long arm over your compact carry.
You nail the second part as well, the fog of war situation. I've had this argument in real life and it took a bit for the person to understand you can't ID the shooter if everyone with a gun tries to converge on them.
Gun ownership isn't a right, it's a privilege that carries heavy responsibilities. It's a cultural view of firearms that differs heavily. I'm more likely to trust a leftist who trains, doesn't exclaim everywhere they own a firearm, and locks up what needs to be locked up. The entire home invasion thing is a myth, majority that end up in a home with someone there bail. Few try to fight because they don't know what you might have.