Some things that I don't like about 30 Days of Night

[Bojangles]

We're probably putting more thought into this than the director did.

Three reasons I can think of for being quick on the draw:

1) Her fumbling around for the gun probably wouldn't have been as cool, and it needs to be quick to have the element of surprise - you weren't expecting her to pull a gun.
2) If she fumbled around, those damn feminists would scream the director was implying women can't handle firearms.
3) Wouldn't you make sure you could handle a gun if you had to pull it on a large, horny oil worker? He won't politely wait.

The only reason I can think of for why the other vampires didn't jump in is an animal or tribal mentality - it was a direct challenge to the Alpha, a fight for dominance. Or they just didn't expect him to win.

As far as waiting for the sun to come up, I think he expressed the need to stop them - otherwise they would just move on and do all this again. The town was about to blow up, and without the survivors (and there wouldn't have been any had he not done that, most likely) the deaths would have been chalked up to an industrial accident....which is probably the better option, when you're the only person alive in a town full of slaughtered people and try to blame it on vampires to investigators.

Lol I would say that we probably are. I wasn't talking about her expertise with a firearm, I was saying that I thought she was going overboard by pulling a gun out on the guy in the first place. I just thought that it was unnecessary.

I guess that could be why they didn't jump in. Damn, that head Vampire was a wimp, though.

However, he only killed the head Vampire. The rest of them retreated immediately following the defeat of their "leader", because they didn't have time to waste due to the sun coming up. So, even if he wanted to kill them all and prevent further carnage, he wouldn't be able to. He turned into a vampire and only defeated one of them. Also, the fire never got to that car that Stella and the little girl were hiding under, nor did it reach the place they were all held up in. Also, it would have been easier to explain it to investigators when you show them the flipped over cars, and plus there was at least one head the Vampires propped up on a stick, lol.