A single armed individual would have made the body count smaller.

Not much help to anyone- except to the extra survivors- but that’s all you can do.

Radio stations yesterday were making great hay about the guy wearing body armor- as if that made him unstoppable. Body armor is designed to prevent your death, it does not stop you from being harmed. A 44 magnum has, IIRC about 1000 lb-feet of energy at short distance, or about 1400 joules. It takes about 400 joules to break a leg bone, one of the toughest bones in your body. Plate armor prevents the projectile from penetrating, but it does not sheild the wearer from the impact; I can’t speak personally to the new lightweight Kevlar stuff but the old plate stuff? You get hit with a 38 special, and you’re on your knees gasping for air. So armor or no, a bullet still puts the idiot out of commission, at least long enough to disarm him. Imagine the last four heavyweight prizefighters hitting you in the chest at once.

Anyway it’s all speculation. If someone has made up their mind to do a stupid thing, all the laws and safeguards on earth won’t stop him. More laws won’t, making something more illegal won’t. Another talking head point was the high capacity magazine. If Jerry Miculek can get to the point where he can shoot 12 rounds through a revolver in under 3 seconds, others might do it too, no high cap magazine is required to obtain a high rate of fire.

Pray for the victims. Pray that we can get into this idiots head and try to figure out what caused him to change from a harmless geek to a sociopathic loon.