Personally, I am glad that none of you wannabee Captain America types were there. 'Cause there would be one more victim, one more orphan, one more widow, and one more person this freak could add to his body count. It is one thing for a platoon of armed soldiers wearing protective masks, with supporting fire, indirect fire, and grenades to assault a positiion, a totally different thing for some unprotected goober without a clue charging across a dark theater full of obstacles, "sun" in your eyes, against the flow of a fleeing crowd, with snot and saliva streaming from your mouth like a calf slobbering, eyes burning like someone just threw lye in them, and every breath feels like breathing in fire. You'd have no force field, no mighty shield, no superpowers, no x-ray vision, no spider web flying from your wrist, nor would you turn green, large, and invincible.
Just a puny little man with .223 rounds cutting through you like hot butter. And they say that most soldiers ask for their mama in their dying breath.
Would have made a good movie though. And you might even be considered a hero....if you made it more than 10 feet towards the shooter.
Personally, I am glad that none of you wannabee Captain America types were there. 'Cause there would be one more victim, one more orphan, one more widow, and one more person this freak could add to his body count. It is one thing for a platoon of armed soldiers wearing protective masks, with supporting fire, indirect fire, and grenades to assault a positiion, a totally different thing for some unprotected goober without a clue charging across a dark theater full of obstacles, "sun" in your eyes, against the flow of a fleeing crowd, with snot and saliva streaming from your mouth like a calf slobbering, eyes burning like someone just threw lye in them, and every breath feels like breathing in fire. You'd have no force field, no mighty shield, no superpowers, no x-ray vision, no spider web flying from your wrist, nor would you turn green, large, and invincible.
Just a puny little man with .223 rounds cutting through you like hot butter. And they say that most soldiers ask for their mama in their dying breath.
Would have made a good movie though. And you might even be considered a hero....if you made it more than 10 feet towards the shooter.
Actually this was not directed at you because your post was reasonable. Though if you agree with all of the other posts and just didn't state that fact.....yeah, I understand your resentment. If the shoe fits.....Apparently it was just smoke, not tear gas. And most of us are not wannabe superheros and frankly I resent that remark. But if you're carrying a gun and you're not willing to even try to defend yourself with it what is the point then? We don't know what would have happened if somebody would have shot back but we know for certain what did happen since nobody did. The attack went on until his gun jammed up and he surrendered to the first person aiming a gun back at him.
You would have best protected your family by forcing them all to the floor and making sure that they did not try to run with the rest of the crowd.Rather die in that 10 feet, TRYING to protect my family, than just sit there and accept the fact that your dead anyway. Have fun being an inanimate target.
You would have best protected your family by forcing them all to the floor and making sure that they did not try to run with the rest of the crowd.
A man dying in that 10 feet would not have protected his family in the least, they would have been running with the rest of the people with bullseyes on their backs while you died in a pool of blood.
Get real.
I dunno....usta take me about three seconds with a well-worn M-16 and standard Govt issue mags.I wonder how fast I can move, with my adrenalin on ultra high, when that mag runs out....? Think you can reload faster than I can close the gap?
Regardless of what it was, I would do something, even if it was climbing over your dead body, for real!
If there were a few people with my mentality in the crowd, especially close to the front, less people with your mentality would have died.
I dunno....usta take me about three seconds with a well-worn M-16 and standard Govt issue mags.
Gimme a sick mind, a modern weapon and mags, a Dremel and buffing wheel, and veins also pumped full of adrenalin....probably get it down to 2.5 or less.
In the meantime you would be trying to determine where I was at, crossing fallen bodies, figuring out how to get across rows of seats, maybe sliding on the newly pooled blood that has poured on top of the dried soda, popcorn butter, and what other grossness that was on the floor.
At which time you would merely pull out and throw your mighty hammer.
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I will conceed that "What i would like to think I would do" was not the original question. Wrong thread.
Reloads and jams... lots of time to do something. Cant assume the perp will run out of ammo anytime soon. Last year in Issiquah Wa, LE popped a guy that was running around shooting. Didnt hit anyone, but the freek had 600 rounds on him.
Different people, different responces. Not everybody has the combat training and real life experiences others of us do.
fstroupe, how about a beer and we agree to disagree?
Its true none of us knows for sure what we would do. Especially if we have family with us. But one thing comes to mind. Training.. Most average folk do not have the training for this kind of situation. They just go the ground. Military trains you to go to the fire when ambushed. If you go to ground your dead. One of the hardest thing is to go into the ambush... Its down to training, experience..
Here is the link to the AURORA SHOOTING Diagram
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He was walking in the aisle/stairs. Most people who are self defense minded will be seated close to an aisle (you can move you are not trapped)
The distance may have very close, yet some chose to just lie on top of a family member and cry. Now people call them heroes.
The problem as I see it from some of the postings is a lack of training. When someone says they would respond, and then there are post about what if this, or that, or what ever.
In my past training we were taught to problem solve, NOT start WHINING.
My God the sheep in here are think.
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