Bonnie Ray Williams is just starting to become aware that something has happened down on Elm Street Below....and the slower witted Harold Norman is showing no sign of any unusual occurrence.... And we are being treated as though we are even slower witted than Harold Norman. We are expected to believe that this Dillard photo was taken thirty seconds after the shooting.
But there's a lot going on in the motorcade they came to watch, also. Reverberation was being sensed by then, too. To me, you seem to compare their situation with sitting in a windowless room with no distractions and having only to process a rifle being fired overhead.
A few years ago, there was a stadium full of football fans in France who kept watching the game while explosions occurred just outside.
People don't always behave in unison, or conform to predictable behavior, in a crisis. They generally compartmentalize things. Like you do with reality.
Las Vegas Mass Shooting
"‘There’s a shooter!’: Body-cam video shows officers passing unaware casino-goers during Vegas shooting" (
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"1 October body camera video shows people sleeping in rooms unaware of active shooter" (
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