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In reply to the discussion: "He killed himself, you baboon" [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Look at almost all the active shooter cases in history- when armed response and resistance of any kind shows up they either immediately off themselves or they give up.
It's in the psychology of shooters like this.
That is why one of the lessons learned after Columbine is you can't just wait for SWAT to go in when you have cases like this. Instead you have to move toward the sound of the shooters as soon as you have 2 or 3 people. You get to them as fast as possible and maybe you get lucky and kill them, maybe you just disrupt their plans and they shoot at you instead of anyone else and at least you have changed their focus away from civilians. And psychology and experience shows that as soon as you make the presence of armed resistance known most of them are eitehr going to give up or take themselves out.
He had a view that spanned a huge chunk of a very active part of Las Vegas, and there were still wounded people on the ground, people tending to them, people getting up and running from cover- there is no way that whole area was totally free of people in just a few highly chaotic minutes.