I listened to a few BBC radio interviews over the weekend. One was with a very heroic young man who lay atop his girlfriend on the floor of the Bataclan Theatre while they pretended to be dead.
He said the two killers were simply executing people. They’d reload and the killings would stop for minutes. Then they’d start again.
A theater of hundreds of people held at bay by two people. Granted, they had big firepower, but had a few of the people in that theater had their own weapons, might not more people be alive today?
I heard one of the survivors say on TV that the two shooters were spelling each other-- one would cover the crowd while the other was doing the shooting. Very hard for someone in the crowd to deal with that, especially with only a handgun.