Dayton shooting shows six good guys with guns are no match for a high-capacity magazine

[applegrove]

Dayton shooting shows six good guys with guns are no match for a high-capacity magazine

Police in Dayton did their jobs very well. Nine people still died in 30 seconds.

ALAN PYKE at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/six-good-guys-with-guns-in-dayton-and-nine-dead-9099ceb86762/

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Police laid Connor Betts down for good about 30 seconds after he first fired his rifle into the Saturday night crowds of Dayton, Ohio’s main bar district.

Thirty-two seconds, to be exact, according to an ATM camera that captured the sounds of those frantic and deadly moments between Betts’ first shot and the last one fired by police.

The alacrity and heroism of police officers at the scene stands out even more sharply in a separate, sound-free video captured by a bar surveillance camera.

Betts was just one stride from the front door of a bar into which hundreds of people had just fled his fusillade when police finally stopped him. Had it taken even one more second to neutralize him, the videos Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl shared with the press on Sunday show, he could well have gained entrance and been staring at what amounted to a human shooting gallery.


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[FarPoint]

1. I have a close friend on Dayton PD...

He was about 5 minutes out... Said the radio traffic was terrifying...your peers are facing the murderer....the wounded, the massive gun fire...I am so proud of these brave Officers ..

[FakeNoose]

5. +1 It must have been a horror, but they handled themselves well

[FarPoint]

6. They did immediate Triage of the wounded..They blocked of the street in 2 minutes after shooter down

You can hear this on the radio exchange....It was indeed a war zone....several Officers took wounded in their squad cars to the hospital faster than the medica could get there...needed a lot of medics at thew onset...Miami Valley Hospital was 3 blocks away....

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[LisaL]

2. No doubt they stopped a lot of additional murders.

If police weren't right there the death toll would be a lot worse.

[captain queeg]

3. If Trump had been there I'm sure he would have charged right in unarmed

It’s sickening to even repeat his boast from those school shootings. He is delusional, how can we hope for any action from him.

[underpants]

4. And the police didn't shoot anyone else from what I understand

Excellent job and some excellent planning for them to be so prepared and in place.

[uponit7771]

7. K&R, Good point ... this is about the ***BEST*** reaction America can expect and still 30 people...

... where killed or shot.

[albacore]

8. Were there any "friendly fire" casualties? nt

[applegrove]

9. Nope. But these were trained police. No doubt if john q public started

shoot with no police to stop the mass murderer, there would have been friendly fire victims.

[albacore]

12. Even with trained cops..soldiers...Marines... There is a lot of shit flying around. Miraculous! nt

[cwydro]

10. Those cops were heroes, no doubt.

Brave as hell.

[Luciferous]

11. One of my idiot coworkers brought up the shootings and said the guns are not

the problem. I said he managed to kill 9 people in 30 seconds, how is that not a big part of the problem? He shut up after that.