We know -- read the article -- that many who were shot, lay there and were shot again and again and again. Once shot they "played dead", then Cho made sure they were dead.
We know -- ever try it? I have -- that shooting pistols in both hands is highly inaccurate.
We know the value of aiming -- which takes a second, more or less -- to getting even one shot on a stationary target.
We know that any thing that broke the shooter's tempo, that distracted him, caused one and more shots to go astray.
Time for some to run -- to crawl away even.
That's why you advice is terrible. And it was advice.
When -- G-d forbid -- you or anyone is in such a situation, MOVE! RUN AWAY! THROW THINGS!
"He stood in front and kept firing, barely moving. ... it took about a minute and a half."
Cho left the room, the student then did fight back -- they, Perkins, and two others, pushed the table against the door. They held it when Cho tried to return. He tried, he shot through the door. With their legs they held it closed, desperately. Cho left, they lived.
ACTION saved their lives.
ACT and live!
The action that seemed to save lives was either a) blocking the door with a heavy object or b) running like hell.
According to the story (which is a simply amazing story, I might add), anyone who got within a foot of him died. It also seems like he spent little more than 30 to 90 seconds in each classroom, at which point most of the people were dead.
Maybe the Derbyshires and Boortzes of the world are ninjas and have not told anyone. But I’ve been rear-ended at a traffic light and it’s taken me 30 seconds to gather my thoughts. I can’t imagine sitting in a class, trying to think of the German word for “toilet” and suddenly seeing my professor’s head explode.
We are in the world of instincts here. I simply can’t imagine an instinct that says, climb out of your desk, climb over the dead bodies, and run towards the scary Asian guy with two pistols.