Outlier situations like this are still more prevalent in the U.S., though. The ordinary citizens’ Second-Amendment-enabled tendency to amass private armouries of guns can make a bad and volatile situation (e.g. a drug lab, right-wing ideology, a booby-trapped building) more explosive even if the weapons and ammo rounds themselves are not necessarily the literal powderkeg.
We don’t yet know what this atomised arsehole was up to in the house, but we do know that firearms were involved and that they didn’t make the situation less dangerous.
