Here is the comment I posted on the Channel 4 thread:
The recent FSU case was an anomaly. The delusional/insane shooter only had a .380 pistol which held 7 or so cartridges, and he hung around the front of the library as if he was literally waiting for the cops to come and shoot him in a “suicide by cop.”
That’s why the cops got there in about 2 to 5 minutes and shot him. (I have heard various reports on the time lapse.) He was literally waiting for them.
If he had had a 9mm pistol or bigger, with several 15-round magazines, and had gone deep into the library and up to a top floor and cornered 100 or more students, it would have been a bloodbath, and the cops arriving at the front door in just minutes would not have prevented it. It would have been like Virginia Tech, a bloodbath. Cops arriving outside would not have stopped it, just as they could not stop Virginia Tech.
Only an armed student or staff on that floor with the shooter could have stopped it then.
The fact is that the average number of deaths in shooting rampages stopped by police is 11, and the number of deaths when it is stopped by a civilian is 3. Why? Because the civilian with the gun was right there, and the cops were a long way away. That’s why shooters seek “disarmed victim zones” like school cafeterias and libraries.
Thank God FSU was basically a “suicide by cop” and not another Virginia Tech.
Another report states that friends of the shooter had been trying to get him help for a couple of months.