[don-o]

you miss the salient point........ even if armed the Marines would have died the shots were fired from a car outside the building

No fatalities, I think, at the recruiting off ice. It was at the Reserve Center, where he crashed a gate, that the killing was done.

My question is why the troops there did not get a heads up he was coming at them?

[NaturalScience]

Even if they were warned, I’m sure the instructions were to “shelter in place.”