IMO, the only true hero of the Newtown disaster was the principal who threw her unarmed body at that creep, and died. Anybody with the guts to do that would have used a weapon. The real (and only affordable) answer is training and arming adults in the schools, hopefully with a psychological screening to cull the all-too-likely and all-too-common mentally unfit employees in public schools. Just think: A mass refusal by teachers to train could induce a few mass-layoffs! :-) I can dream, can't I?
I do wonder about the mental fitness of many in our nation's government owned and run prison-like schools. Have you had the opportunity to read some of the posts from the government school defenders, many of whom are government school teachers?
I was a deputy sheriff .... We trained and planned / responded as I stated .... Active shooter, especially a school.... Never wait, inform dispatch as to where your making entry, leave your siren and lights blasting, gun up and start kicking doors , triple tap center mass anyone that refuses to drop their weapon.
Very simple, noise, run and gun to stop the threat or make them try an escape their killing ground
Anything less is bullshit as you state. PC be damned. Even sheep need sheepdogs.
Stay safe buddy... Hope yer well.
I wonder what the nation’s response would have been if one of the teachers or a student had used an illegal concealed weapon and had killed the assailant after he had killed 5-6 kids.
actually, there were several teachers who were heroes that day, not only the principal, but Victoria Soto especially. But if you read the events of that day, the entire staff behaved admirably. And saved many small lives - kids who went home to their moms and dads because of these teachers.
Evil? Useless? Vile? no, not at all. In fact they were brave souls who placed their lives LITERALLY on the line. I admire them and hope I would be as brave if I were in that position.