I guess these guys don't believe in hell, they will soon but not soon enough.

Here meet your cell mate big Been over Bob.

Prayers and thoughts go out to the victems and families.

This ****ing pisses me off that this stuff happens here in USA.

So sad and tragic.

That's just silly the guy had a vest, used tear gas grenades and powerful long guns. There would have been people running all over the place. If someone else started shooting they would have almost no chance of hitting him in a dark theater and wouldn't have stopped him even if they did given the vest. What they would have hit was innocent bystanders.

I was thinking about this....you'd have to be as crazy as the shooter to pull it off and beat him without injuring someone else.

Would people have been killed: yes. Would the damage done have been reduced: probably.

At that point, things aren't going to get any worse. You would just be trying to buy time for people to get out.

Is this a serious question?

So if you were in that situation you would've opted to not arm yourself?

Not sure if that works either.

Even if he got hit in the chest with the vest on could have slowed the ****er down or knock him on his ass. I've never had the experience but am sure it hurts like a mother ****er. Maybe just maybe it still could have saved lives that way and subdued the mother ****er.

Yep. I'm sure there will be buzz words out there like "Chemical imbalace" or "temporary insanity" (that's my favorite) that his defense team will use but make no mistake about it, sometimes there's just pure evil in this world and it sucks.

Son of a bitch.

I think I'll pass on the idea of a half dozen armed theatergoers firing wildly into the smokey darkness in the hopes of hitting the better prepared and better equipped crazy guy. The correct response when someone opens fire is to run like mad, which they did.

I feel terrible for the victims.

I don’t know about “silly” but this is a good point. Part of being a responsible CCW is not just being Johnny On-the-Spot but also knowing when not to shoot.
In this case you’ve got a motivated killer so you have to quickly come up with a plan. You can’t just pull your gat and let the lead fly, that’ll get even more killed.
I would think that if you’re in the line of fire just keep your head down and encourage everyone around you to do the same, but if you can approach from the killer’s blind side closing the distance quickly then put an end to it.