The official statements from police were all consistent though, the only thing that changed were reports from the media. The media getting facts wrong about firearms is not bizarre, it’s par for the course. If they had actually reported accurately about the firearms used, THAT would be bizarre.
“Considering also that the number of rounds reported to be fired, and the number of casualties/hits, puts his accuracy as something like 90% — an amazing, and unrealistic, accuracy rate for a situation when people’s fight or flight instinct is kicking to overdrive.”
Really? He was shooting fish in a barrel, kids crammed into bathrooms and closets with nowhere to run. There’s nothing unrealistic about this at all.
Have you tried shooting fish in a barrel?
More seriously, the excess of 90% is very impressive; unrealistically so.
Trained soldiers rarely get that high an accuracy in combat; and if you're thinking that CQB is fish in a barrel, you've never heard how the military had to adopt new tactics for urban warfare. Yes, when no one's shooting back you have less to worry about than a soldier clearing a building; but the sheer number of people moving/hiding combined with the panic of flight or flight instincts makes a hit-rate of 90% pretty damn impressive.
Perhaps not enough to on its own be bizarre, but combined with the other facts of the incident (drill-protocols followed, the lack of mandatory hazmat-cleanup paperwork, and the school being bulldozed/rebuilt) makes it stand out all the more.