Titanium_Frost
Grandmaster
Maybe, but I'm not poopoo'ing those in the theater since I was not there. It is easy for us to say what we would do in the comforts of home with the benefit of hindsight. I would HOPE I could defend against such things but that mostly falls into the "luck" category. Tackle is fine, but what are you gonna do after that? Don't get yourself killed knocking him down only to have him pop right back up, your dead and now there is no one protecting your family. At first the movie goers though this was a publicity stunt to go along with the movie so no one moved until gas was deployed and shots rang out. Then you have a theater full to the brim with movie goers now all trying to run out. Remember, firing shots "in his general vicinity" will likely hit movie goers rather than the perp. .45ACP will hurt through armor but pain will be dulled or numbed completely by will/adrenaline. Pelvic shots will stop the determined shooter wearing armor over body and head. Just food for thought.
I completely agree. I don't think we can even begin to put oursleves in that situation and say we would do X because I doubt you would have much time to think or process information while it happened.
Center of mass shots will likely hit his hands/arms/neck which are also not armored. The North Hollywood guy was put out of commision when his thumb was shot off and he could not reload IIRC.