Documentary show: Active Shooter...shows armed citizens can make a difference...

[2aguy]

Active Shooter is a documentary show on Showtime. Each episode looks at a different mass public shooting by talking to experts, police and actual victims of the shooters.

I have watched the Aurora theater shooting episode, and the Columbine shooting episode....

What we learn......had people been armed with legal hand guns...lives could have been saved.

Aurora:

The drum magazine caused his rifle to malfunction.....

From a psychiatrist who interviewed the shooter....he wanted the shooting to be impersonal...so when he entered the theater, he had people right in front of him....and he didn't shoot them, he fired over them and into the more impersonal crowd.

Several of the victims and many of the ones who escaped....would have had more than enough time to draw pistols and return fire....this is from direct statements made by those he shot.....they describe him dealing with the jam of his rifle due to the 100 round magazine, and the shear number of people he didn't shoot who were right near him when he started shooting.....since, again, he didn't shoot those closest to him.

Another point....one of the people in the theater, as the killer approached, had a smile on their face.....the shooter and the psychiatrist talked about this and determined it was either a nervous reaction, or a grimace...but.....it made a connection with the shooter and he didn't shoot that indivdual....

Columbine:

Another situation where armed teachers, administrators or police on campus could have saved lives...

The nice thing about the two shows so far.......there wasn't an anti gun, anti gun owner mentality. They had two parents of one of the victims who were introduced as activists....but they didn't describe what their agenda was, right away. It turns out they are pushing for the Media.....to stop giving mass shooters Notoriety.....to actually be responsible and to stop covering these killers in ways that turn them into infamous celebrities....

So far, a good show...and it shows two shows in that armed citizens could have made a difference....

 

[2aguy]

Just finishing the Orlando, Pulse Nightclub shooting......

Keep in mind in the Aurora shooting episode and the Columbine shooting episode...they actually named the 3 shooters and discussed personal details about them....in this episode, not one mention of the shooter, his name or the reason he did what he did...in fact, a reporter they interviewed for the show who went to the scene as it was happening...said they still didn't know why he did it.....

This is from Wikipedia...the hiding of the name of the shooter, and his motivation is really twisted......

In a 9-1-1 call shortly after the shooting began, Mateen swore allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant(ISIL), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and said the shooting was "triggered" by the U.S. killing of Abu Waheeb in Iraq the previous month.

Now....watching this episode....again, if there had been people inside that Nightclub with concealed guns....they could have shot the shooter and saved lives...

The first thing I noticed was how small the rooms in the club actually were....I had always imagined them to be a lot bigger...they were tiny, very enclosed.

Another thing...as the police arrive you see through their body cams....they all start pulling out AR-15 rifles from their car trunks....

There was plenty of opportunity for the wounded and other survivors in the club to have used guns to stop this shooter....had they been allowed to have guns in this gun free zone...

The shooter reloaded, the shooter walked into the bathrooms, through the door of those bathrooms where 15-17 people were hiding in each room.....and a door way is the best place to shoot someone because it is a small space...and it is hard to use a rifle coming around that corner....the people in the bathrooms, in the stalls.....sat there unable to respond as the shooter washed his hands and dried them with the drier. One man fell off of the toilet seat he was hiding on, and his back was exposed to the shooter.....the shooter simply reached down and touched his back, and didn't shoot him.

If this nightclub had not been a gun free zone...lives could have been saved. You had survivors in the bathrooms asking the 911 operators why the police weren't coming in to save them...they were told they had injured in the bathrooms who were in danger of bleeding out...they were using cell phones to stay in contact with 911, so they could have easily used a concealed gun to shoot or distract the shooter....it was hours before the police made their entry and engaged the shooter.