You overlooked (unintentionally I’m sure) my other comment.
The one about if CCW was in play on the campus, Cho wouldn’t have known who was armed in ANY classroom, and therefore wouldn’t have choosen as he did.
I think that part of my view counters your well thought out post to me.
What do you think?
You overlooked (unintentionally I’m sure) my other comment.
The one about if CCW was in play on the campus, Cho wouldn’t have known who was armed in ANY classroom, and therefore wouldn’t have choosen as he did.
Again, it has to be more widespread than just one single armed individual in the building. Cho, of course, was both deranged and irrational, as well as suicidal. He might well have made an attack on whatever easy target he could find even knowing he'd be killed, since he expected to die but did not wish to be thwarted.
That's probably why he picked the School of Engineering building classrooms [with German and French classes taught there as well, odd] though he seemed to harbor no special grudge against technology or engineering; all he was after was a large number of easy targets, with maybe a few specific ones. And his methodology of first shooting the teacher/instructor, then going after the students, means that *just* arming the teachers is not the answer, either.
I think that part of my view counters your well thought out post to me.
What do you think?
Nope. They complement each other; neither negates the other. It's a difficult situation, and any workable answers are likely not short or simple ones.