The guy who bursts into the room is wearing tight-fitting gloves that appear to be leather. The "trainees" are wearing some kind of stiff, oversized gloves that were probably just given to them, since they are all wearing the same type. Watch them fumbling with their bag zippers, etc. Also, the "attacker" already has his gun drawn and his finger on the trigger; any awkwardness caused by gloves would be encountered in drawing the gun and getting one's finger in the trigger guard, something he has already done before entering the room.
Yes, SWAT teams wear helmets, goggles, and balaclavas. They also train with them extensively. The people in this "experiment" were wearing them for the first time. In a real classroom, an armed student would not be wearing any of that gear. No gloves, no helmet, no goggles, and none of the concomitant difficulty in gun handling.
The "armed students" have been placed front and center in the classroom, and the shooter has been prepped and knows exactly who they are. The shooters go for them immediately after shooting the instructor, despite there being no indication at this point that any of them are armed.
The assailant's gun is blue. "Blue guns" are plastic replicas that are used as training aids. The first thought that anyone in a firearms training classroom would have is that this was simply a vivid demonstration. This would inhibit a fast response. I'm betting that the armed students were never quite sure that an actual attack was in progress -- and in fact, it wasn't. Their first impulse on seeing the blue gun would have been correct: no threat here.
And despite all this, in the last one, Danielle lands what would have been a disabling shot -- a hit near the femoral artery that, with a hollowpoint bullet, would have caused massive bleeding and possibly have been fatal. She was hit multiple times, of course, and would have died too, but how many lives would she have saved?
This ABC video is nothing but hack propaganda. They don't deserve to be called journalists.
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