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Red4ADevil said:

If this shit ever happened in places like Gary, Indiana, he would've hit the floor (getting shot or killed; either way) the moment he would've open fired.

Yea, sure. Keep dreaming. If all those people in the theatre had had guns, the following would have happened:

Armed guy nr 257 in row 17 doesn't see anything because of the smoke grenade and can't move around because of the panic all around him. For some miraculous coincidence, he does start shooting towards the (fully equipped with bullet-proof gear) loonie in the front, probably hitting a few people running around him instead. Now guy nr 87 in row 49 happens to sees the muzzle fire and starts to shoot at that place, thinking he sees the loonie's gun firing. Now other guys join the shooting... you get the point of the end result with a room full of essentially blind and panicked armed people).

Fact is: life is not a movie, although this tragedy happened in a movie theatre. No amount of Stallone/Norris/Schwarzenegger movies consumed would have prevented the tragedy, it could have gotten much worse instead.