I’ve never been under fire, but I’ve been in fires and other situations where someone’s life was at risk: while the worst “customer” I had was someone who’d been trained in how to deal with an emergency, that was 1 in a couple hundred. For the people who found themselves in a bad spot who hadn’t been trained in how to deal with one, the ratio I get (evidently with a much smaller sample than if I was emergency personnel) is along the lines of 100% losing their head. Training isn’t perfect, but it sure does make a difference. You froze, but it looks like you unfroze (or got unfrozen by a mate) in time, and even freezing is an improvement over headless chicken…
I think a big factor in the movie theater shootings was it was a midnight showing and the moviegoers were all amped up. In interviews they were saying they thought the gunman was part of the show.
I’ve only been “under fire” in a paintball game but it’s a very very intense experience. I can only imagine what it must have been like to be in a theater unarmed with someone shooting at me.
Plus tear gas. I don’t know why people keep leaving this out. It’s much harder not to panic when you can’t see because you can’t keep your eyes open.
One thing I haven’t heard about, and am wondering if it were a factor in this: Was this a 3D viewing? If so that may have helped blur the distinction between the film and the live action.
That’d be Suzanna Hupp, whose parents both died in the massacre. She had left her gun in her car, because at the time concealed carry was not permitted. She would have had plenty of time to take him out, because the shooter actually stopped and reloaded several times.
The theater shooter also left bomb(s) in his apartment. Should I assume that someone who is capable of building bombs, would never think to actually build a bomb because firearms weren’t available to him?
I have it on good authority that you are a dickless macho fetishistic wannabe.
I must be true. I read it on the internet.
FWIW, I can see the point that adding another shooter, or even multiple “responders,” to the situation has the potential for serious negative consequences.
But it’s better than being shot like a fish in a barrel, IMO.
So yeah, I tend to agree with you.
To the OP: there are several instances where armed citizens stopped a shooting spree, but you won’t hear about them in the MSM; liberal media bias won’t allow for the possibility that guns in the hands of private citizens can be anything but a danger to society. So those stories just don’t get run in anything other than the Podunk Gazette.
So how do you explain the multiple cites to stories of the type that the OP requested, provided in this very thread, from mainstream media sources?
Besides which, even the Podunk Gazette has a Google-searchable website these days.
I see youtube, wiki, newsmax, some local network affiliates (the “Podunks”).
I haven’t seen ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, or even Fox for that matter.
Edit: I see, you’re disallowing local network affiliates in your definition of “mainstream media.” Well, that’s a bit odd, IMO. Anyway, I collated all these damn quotes so I’m going to go ahead and leave them here now. 
I will grant that this is perhaps underreported (although as others have already pointed out, it’s a little bit difficult to report “20 people didn’t get shot today” - if you stop a guy after he’s killed or attempted to kill one person, who knows how many others he may or may not have also killed if not stopped?) but it’s just not true that mainstream media outlets never report this kind of story.
I have no doubt the story is there, but not on the front page, not the headline, and certainly not the 48 feeding frenzy this current shooting has caused on the news.
But yeah, part of that is bias, but even a larger part is how newsworthy it is.
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Another one for you:
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050826/APA/508260516
Article no longer available foe some reason.
Maybe there is a better thread for this, but has anyone heard any mention of how the shooter got in? He kicked in an exit door right? Wouldn’t those doors have been locked from the inside and wouldn’t they have opened outwards? Seems like they would be hard to kick in if they open outwards.
From my cache of the article, trimmed for fair use:
He initially went in normally, through the front. He then went out through the exit door, propping it open as he did so. After gathering his guns and other gear, he returned through the propped-open exit door.
Another Incident:
No mention on the Major News Networks.
This man made several 165-yard shots. With a handgun! Not impossible shots, but not your everyday, garden variety marksmanship, either.
ETA: the 165 yard is looking a bit long; more like 165 feet.