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Hmm. I don't think you will ever see the average person wearing body armor to class or the movies. And not much body armor works against 223 or head shots.
He could do head shots because the people surrendered. If the students were wearing body armor and rushed him, he would have been taken down sooner. The gunman used a handgun, body armor would have stopped the rounds.

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