and a busy, pitch black room with lots of muzzle flashes. The terrorists could probably have walked in, fired a few rounds then went to the pub for a while as the crowd did most of the work for them
Oh, don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying it’s a good idea! I just think, “It would have made no difference” is too simple, it’s maybe better to accept, maybe it could, better or worse, but then just get past that point entirely and say it doesn’t really matter. Put the argument on a less shaky peg. Because otherwise you get people going away thinking “but it COULD have made a difference” and undermining the real point.
(Likewise- house lights went up fast. So people can see that post and go “but it wasn’t dark” and niggle at some irrelevant detail and miss the more important stuff, and it all goes a bit chewbacca defence)