Your comment,
“reports say that the gunman that was out on the street shooting people at restaurants ....strolled down the street and casually reloaded... “
And this one...
“Once the attackers paused to reload, his group ran across the stage to the emergency exit,...”
( from here: http://news.yahoo.com/france-mourns-seeks-clues-those-085150911.html )
Makes me compare how the Americans responded on the train a few months ago, and how the French responded a couple of days ago. I wasn’t there at either horrible event, but regardless; it seems that the French don’t want to be victims and act as such, compared to the Americans that refuse to be victims and take matters into their hands.
You can’t compare combat veterans to average citizens. Apples to oranges.