Let's take a group of
untrained persons to see if having a gun works.
But to make sure it's not too easy, let's do some things to hamper their movements. Let's...
- put them in extra-long knit t-shirts with long sleeves.
- Make them wear bulky gloves with no sensory input from fingers
- Don't let them practice drawing the weapon much, especially while sitting.
- Finally, let's impair their vision and head mobility by making them don a helmet/mask combination.
In the first place, I'd
never wear a long t-shirt like they showed. First off, it appears to be a knit shirt (snag prone) and as shown it's long enough that you can't easily clear the weapon by lowering it again.
Adding the masks was probably done for safety reasons (i.e. avoid eye injuries). But donning the gloves was an extra impediment and the folks weren't trained to draw wearing gloves.
Given the same constraints, we can prove that ABC's Sawyer isn't a journalist by equipping her with a consumer grade video camera, basic editing software and giving her 30 minutes to cobble together a 2 minute piece on air conditioning repair.