This morning I did some quick research on Ballistic Vests, just out of curiosity - having never owned/worn/considered one.
I don't think its feasible that a civilian such as myself (not a pawnbroker, not a person who carries around vast amounts of cash, not a celebrity of any sort) wears a vest daily just for the sake of wearing one.
But I did some research on them. They protect against handguns and would require armor plating to protect against rifles.
So, assuming the killer had no armor plating, he was probably very wounded if struck by the Good Samaritan's AR15.
That being said, I am so sorry that nobody in that church was armed. It is so sad.
This is really what the 2nd Amendment was all about - to secure your freedom, to provide you security, you have the right to be armed.
And you can't go anywhere unarmed nowadays. And I'm the first one to admit that I carry, and times I'm frikkin lazy and I don't carry. Except, the more these insane instances happen, the more I just wonder if carry'ing is really becoming a social responsibility.
Which I think, "Left Winger's," would have a heart attack if you looked at carrying a gun from the perspective that, "a citizen has a social responsibility to his community to be armed."
Gun control was supposed to stop this guy from getting a gun. Its coming out that the guy sent threatening texts to the in laws - they did not call the police?
Mind boggling...
Hope my post wasn't off/too off topic. I know when these shooting situations happen, it is very difficult to sort of keep responses and the TOS of this website in line.