Ironically, in this case the supposed suicide mission guy surrendered to the police and remains alive. Much like the guy who inspired the rifle graffiti, and Breivik, who used home made body armor. And 2 of the 3 didn't get shot at all.We're talking about someone committing what is effectively a suicide mission where step 1 is "step out of your car holding a rifle covered in racist graffiti". I don't think the severe financial cost or high profile of his armor were large concerns.
That does set up a pattern, perhaps the ones who bother with the discomfort, mobility loss and cost of body armor aren't truly convinced that they are going for a suicide mission?
There is a different group of mass shooters who do specifically go for suicide missions, and they tend to prefer vests filled with explosives, real or failing that, fake, rather than ceramics.
Its a slim chance if they do a proper mozambique drill or magdump. As far as the Buffalo shooting goes, the news reports i've read imply the security guard fired one shot, may be wrong, but if that was the case, it would make a lot of sense.As for the rest, yes, I know. Body armor doesn't make you an FPS able to shrug off dozens of rounds until you run out of HP. But what it does do is give you a substantial edge against one or two opponents, which is still enough to let you possibly outshoot the odd security guard/armed civilian/pair of responding police officers and keep shooting.
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