Is Panic the Death o Us?

I'm am absolutely devastated about the goings-on in Blacksburg, VA.

It's absolutely incomprehensible how evil someone could be.

But I am curious from a certain angle on this. This is the psychologist in me speaking on the topic of group dynamics.

Please help me understand how a lone gunman with handguns manages to slaughter 32 people? In addition, a physician who was taking in bodies at his hospital said no victim had fewer than 3 bullet wounds.

If this is correct then the 30 people he killed in one building required a MINIMUM of 90 rounds. He's also not hitting on every shot, right? So let's bump it up to perhaps 150 rounds discharged.

I'm going somewhere with this I promise.

He's got 2 handguns and let's assume he's rolling legal on the clips-- he's got maybe a maximum of 30 rounds to discharge between the pistols before reloading.

How was this guy allowed to fire that many shots and reload without someone rushing him and kicking his ass? Didn't one person say "hey, he's reloading let's phuck him up"? Is it possible that that many people were paralyzed with fear that they could not pick themselves up as a group and do something? Nobody? No steroid enraged meatheads, no football players, nobody?

He wandered the halls and killed 30 people and nobody did anything?

That just kinda bothers me.

It also makes me question, like one of my coworkers, the "Let's Roll" group of Flight 93. Did they actually do anything or did were they paralyzed by panic?