Why oh why was the room “secured” by police but not stormed by them, immediately? Have police learned nothing since Columbine? Active shooters require instant response, not negotiation. The kid had already fired his weapon! He should have been taken down at the first instant the police arrived.
This happened an hour from my house and I was the next town over when it came on the news, a town of about 10,000 people. Quiet little area, huge heroin problem, but a nice area. It’s pretty shocking to see this happen.
mikee: According to one story I read (and I don’t have a link available at the moment, sorry) by the time the police got there it was not an “active shooter” situation, and it’s possible no one outside the room knew about that first shot. No one even knew there was a situation until the principal went to check on the teacher after he hadn’t heard from him. So they responded to it as a hostage situation.
They did go in as soon as he started shooting again, at least.
According to ex-main-stream-media, this is a brand new crisis of earth-shaking proportions, which requires the government to immediately lock us all up and only let us out at pre-arranged intervals. Even though this has happened multiple times before ……. It doesn’t matter to anti-gunners if we point out the historical obvious. But it will come in useful when we say “I told you so and you didn’t listen.” Especially during civil liability lawsuits. Like O.J., if we can’t get them in criminal courts, we can always go the other route, where the elements of proof are much less stringent.
I really hope this doesn’t stir up a whole new world of problems, though living an hour away there are already talks about how it could be prevented, and what measures schools can take to ensure this doesn’t happen. While I respect that, the amount of criticism in the local community is astounding. Police, school, everyone did what they were trained to do. Instead of this being turned into a crazy fantasy, I hope it gets looked at as “hey, our system worked” and not “WE NEED METAL DETECTORS AT EVERY DOOR TO EVERY ROOM!”.
November 30th, 2010 at 11:00 am
There ought to be a law!
November 30th, 2010 at 11:35 am
Those signs have majik powers.
November 30th, 2010 at 11:53 am
And you forgot: “A 15 year old cant have a handgun”
November 30th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Why oh why was the room “secured” by police but not stormed by them, immediately? Have police learned nothing since Columbine? Active shooters require instant response, not negotiation. The kid had already fired his weapon! He should have been taken down at the first instant the police arrived.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Another gun-free zone aids and abets another perp.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
This happened an hour from my house and I was the next town over when it came on the news, a town of about 10,000 people. Quiet little area, huge heroin problem, but a nice area. It’s pretty shocking to see this happen.
There’ll be more info at http://www.wfrv.com/
November 30th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
mikee: According to one story I read (and I don’t have a link available at the moment, sorry) by the time the police got there it was not an “active shooter” situation, and it’s possible no one outside the room knew about that first shot. No one even knew there was a situation until the principal went to check on the teacher after he hadn’t heard from him. So they responded to it as a hostage situation.
They did go in as soon as he started shooting again, at least.
November 30th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
According to ex-main-stream-media, this is a brand new crisis of earth-shaking proportions, which requires the government to immediately lock us all up and only let us out at pre-arranged intervals. Even though this has happened multiple times before ……. It doesn’t matter to anti-gunners if we point out the historical obvious. But it will come in useful when we say “I told you so and you didn’t listen.” Especially during civil liability lawsuits. Like O.J., if we can’t get them in criminal courts, we can always go the other route, where the elements of proof are much less stringent.
December 1st, 2010 at 1:05 am
I really hope this doesn’t stir up a whole new world of problems, though living an hour away there are already talks about how it could be prevented, and what measures schools can take to ensure this doesn’t happen. While I respect that, the amount of criticism in the local community is astounding. Police, school, everyone did what they were trained to do. Instead of this being turned into a crazy fantasy, I hope it gets looked at as “hey, our system worked” and not “WE NEED METAL DETECTORS AT EVERY DOOR TO EVERY ROOM!”.