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Originally Posted by Autotune
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First off, the theater is not as dark as you imply. If it was, the survivor recount stories you read wouldn't tell in such great detail where the guy was standing and moving around. I've read plenty of them and they all mentioned watching the guy as he went up and down the aisles.
Secondly, even if it was as dark and smokey as you imply, you could locate within 3 feet of him where he is at by muzzle fire. I know for a fact you can and anyone that has ever seen a gun fired at night (foggy or not) will know this. With a revolver and 6 rounds, any person that is worth a shit with their firearm would have dropped this retard.
Lastly, as you are now thinking of his tactical gear, let me go ahead and tell you it fucking hurts to get hit by a round in a vest. That is a round to the chest, it would hurt even more so on any other body part. He will drop to the ground like a sack of potatoes, you can possibly even kill him depending on the caliber of your gun if you hit him in the vest.
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Yes, if someone in that movie theater were armed and not killed before they were able to comprehend the situation, they probably could have stopped him after a mere two dozen or so casualties.
That's such backward thinking, though. In the event of a one-in-a-million atrocity, yes, it's better to have multiple armed retards. For the other 999,999 atrocity-less viewings, some moron civilian carrying a gun everywhere he goes only opens the door to negative outcomes.
The problem with the pro-gun crowd, if you'll grant that there's a problem, is that you have entirely too much faith in the general population (including yourselves). I have a hard enough time trusting your garden variety idiot to serve me coffee without spilling it on my dick. Naturally, I'd prefer they not be armed with a killing machine.
And for some reason, the pro-gun crowd thinks they're going to be able to save themselves from the rest of the idiots with guns by possessing a gun themselves. That's not how it works. I'm sure plenty of people in that movie theater own guns. They didn't have them at the time. I'm also sure that at least a dozen, probably more, of the casualties could have had guns on them and it wouldn't have mattered because they were already shot by the time they had any idea what the fuck was going on.
tl;dr -- the average human being is entirely too stupid to be trusted with a gun.