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Yet out of a whole theater not one single man was willing to lay down his life for another - no one was willing to make the attempt
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Even that's not exactly true. It's
widely reported that three men died shielding their girlfriends.
This was a senseless tragedy, and the thing about senseless tragedies is that it's hard to make sense of them. We don't know the demographics of the audience, but I'd suspect that the folks who go to see a midnight movie aren't the CCW types. Even that, in a dark, smoke-filled theater with screams and gunfire, it was probably very difficult to identify the shooter in the opening seconds.
Will something like this happen again? Who knows? Up until now, it's happened exactly once. Still, training isn't a bad idea. It might be a mall shooter, a church shooter, simply a crowd shooter. The hardest part of the dynamic in the opening seconds is identifying who the bad guy is. If you happen to be so unlucky as to find yourself in a mass shooting, and you happen to get lucky and stop the bad guy with your handgun, be forewarned that when the police get there, they'll be looking for a guy with a gun. You'll probably be handcuffed, transported, and held until they sort the sheep from the goats.