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"A person believed to be part of a peace keeping team" and "people running security" are not the same thing. At a glance this looks like the "good guy with a gun" mythos that pro-gun advocates keep spreading cost an innocent person their life.
If this is professional security who fucked up, sure, there's a discussion to be had. If this is a volunteer peacekeeper who showed up strapped, he is part of the problem, not the solution.
Okay I'll get to the point: In a situation where they and a large number of other people were credibly going to be shot at, what the fuck did you want them to do? Duty to retreat doesn't save crowds.
But what else could we have done?
What I want done is to create strong gun legislation instead of encouraging citizens to play action hero and see the civilian shot in the crossfire as an unfortunate but unpreventable casualty.
EDIT - I'm addressing everyone's comments here rather than copy-pasting the same response to everyone. I had only read the first section of the article, having been fooled by the wall of ads on mobile into believing that the first five paragraphs was the whole article. Without the additional explination and context in the remaining article I had believed that, when approached by volunteer security, the man with the rifle had attempted to flee, and the securities' response was to gun him down, and an innocent caught a stray. It was insane to me that people thought to defend that, but as people pointed out that the rifleman was running towards a crowd with the rifle in a firing position, I was wondering how the hell people got that from the 5 paragraphs. I reloaded the article, scrolled past a full screen of advertising, and discovered there was a lot more depth provided in the article than I had realized. With a rifle aimed at civilians, the security volunteer was right to take the shot, because the intent for harm was clear.
I stand by this being a systematic issue that needs solving at the root, but in the moment the security volunteer handled the situation correctly.
That does absolutely nothing to address the current situation.
That's great and I agree, but that's not what we have now. What would you have them do differently in this particular situation with the resources, challenges, and restrictions we actually have, not what we want to have?
So did you want the shooter to instead walk up to the potential mass shooter and preach the benefits of gun control? Because otherwise you did not answer the question.
You need to get yourself an ad blocker.
Yeah I saw a grand total of zero ads in that article lol.