“Most of those same laws apply to guns," Burbank said. And it’s unclear what effective body armor regulation would even look like, given the difficulty of regulating the weapons that are used in the shootings. Still, body armor itself isn't inherently dangerous and is in fact aimed at protection - something on the minds of many people amid a spike in gun violence in the U.S., Burbank said. The idea that you may not be able to stop them if you had to use deadly force is terrifying.” "Somebody commits a crime wearing body armor, and it’s terrifying. “I don’t think it’s something that is really thought about too much, but we’ve seen it many times and we’ve seen it here in south Florida," Colina said. Only one state blocks it from being ordered online and shipped to homes: Connecticut, which requires a face-to-face purchase.Ĭolina would like to see more states consider stricter rules. Federal law prohibits certain violent felons from buying body armor, but other than that there are few restrictions on purchasing it.
Getting body armor isn’t difficult under U.S.
Body armor is relatively easy to get, especially the soft body armor similar to the bulletproof vests regularly worn by police officers that are effective against handguns. Police officers are seeing body armor in other types of investigations, like narcotics cases, said former Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina. One of the ways you do that is you dress up pretending you’re in the military.” “So it’s meant to be a big spectacle, and it’s meant to have people pay attention and to notice it. “A mass shooting is intended to be a final act - you don’t get away with a mass shooting,” Densley said. But such gear can enable attackers to shoot longer and is a symbolic way to adhere to societal expectations of what a mass shooting looks like, said James Densley, a criminal justice professor at Metro State University in Minnesota who co-founded The Violence Project. The Violence Project database doesn't show a clear correlation with body armor and the number of victims. “They’re demonstrating this intent that, ‘I want to absolutely kill or hurt as many people as I possibly can before I just can’t fight anymore,’” said Chris Burbank, the former police chief in Salt Lake City who’s now with the Center for Policing Equity. The shooter in Texas's deadliest mass slaying was also wearing protective gear when he killed more than two dozen people at a church in 2017, as was a radicalized Islamic couple who carried out a terror attack in San Bernardino, California, in 2015.
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It's the latest mass shooting in which the gunman apparently came prepared for anyone trying to stop him with a gun.Īt least 21 mass shooters over the last four decades have worn some kind of body armor - and the majority of those were within the last 10 years, according to a database maintained by The Violence Project, a nonpartisan research group that tracks gun violence.Īmong them: A massacre that killed 12 people and injured dozens more at a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, in 2012, and another in nearby Boulder that left 10 people dead at a supermarket last year. Ten Black people died in the racist massacre, including security guard Aaron Salter, a retired Buffalo police officer hailed as a hero. At least one of his shots hit the gunman, but it didn’t stop the deadly rampage because the gunman was wearing body armor. When a shooter attacked a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, its security guard tried to stop him. Domain menu for The Greenwood Commonwealth (main - mobile)
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