This thread is starting to sound like the one about WOW razors. Everyone thinking they have one and few even realize what one is.

Many years ago I spent a couple of weeks at a training facility undergoing what was called street survival. It was run by the U.S Marshal SWAT team at their base in Alexandria, Louisiana. For our final exam we were sent to an abandoned High School and we were dressed in riot gear, helmets, gas masks. We could hardly see or move. At the time we were still carrying revolvers. I had a Ruger Security Six .357. We were issued ammo which was a bullet replaced with a rubber tip and the primer only. (I still have scars from where I was hit). So, we as highly trained and experienced LEOs went in there and those guys were waiting for us. We had to clean them out. They were in every imaginable place someone could fit into. They threw smoke bombs at us, gas and opened up at us basically taking us all out. Our training meant squat. I can't imagine if it was the real thing with real bullets flying. You just go into panic mode.

So the moral of the story is anyone saying if they were in that theater they could have taken the guy out is living in another world. Also as I recall the Police Chief said if his guys had been there before the shooter left his officers would have been casualties too because their ammo would have bounced off the guy.