It's also not easy to take a decsion to allow people to be killed who are faced by much superior arms, and who may be driven to radicalism and extremism by being placed in that situation.
Searches had revealed no links to terror groups and he suggested the attack was unlikely to have been driven by Islamist extremism.
It appears to have been driven by Islamic extremism and anti-gay sentiment, and yes, once again, a gun designed for no other purpose than to kill a large number of people in a short amount of time was central to the crime.
Iranian officials are particularly angry with any suggestion that attackers were driven by religious extremism, or that victims were targeted because they wore clothing that could be deemed inappropriate in the eyes of hardliners.
"[O]ur mosques are demolished, our books banned, our men are jailed, and our women and children burned to death -- all actions that are driven by the same extremism behind the Paris attacks," Rana wrote.
"The war on coal is driven by an ideological extremism on the part of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and today's modern Democratic Party," he said.
Although it's still unclear if they were driven by right-wing extremism, the recent arson attack against a mosque in Peterborough, Ontario, and a pepper spray attack against a group of newly arrived Syrian refugees in Vancouver, are raising concerns about continued backlash against Canada's immigration and resettlement efforts.
Second, because it is not being driven by the normal driver of extremism – economic failure.
The claims about religious extremism were driven by "the settling of political scores" and disgruntled former staff, the trust argues.
A number were also driven into extremism, bitterness and paranoia by the apparent failure of even the largest demonstrations to change the policies of the Johnson and Nixon administrations.
