That's pretty hard to tell a child. To run towards the danger instead of away from it? I have thought the same thing. But would you want that first child that is shot in the rush to gang takle the assailant to be yours? I am more in favor of arming the teachers. Or posting armed guards at the schools.
Armed guards usually only end up being the first victims... the attacker always has the drop... you would need barbed wire and blast zones to keep children truly free from danger... one armed guard only really gives a false sense of security.
Right. It's like I said. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. But that shouldn't stop us from thinking about possible ways to handle different situations. We were talking about a variety of different hostage situations, and weighing the possible choices in handling different situations. Please don't pull out one of those posts, and assign it a meaning that I didn't intend. For the record, it appears to me that this community, along with law enforcement, handled the situation the best way it could be handled. I can't think of anything that should have been done differently.