“And we heard screams. There’s nothing we could do. You know? It was just a helpless, horrible feeling...”
You could not make a better argument for gun ownership.
But isn't that how liberals feel all the time? Always utterly helpless, always wanting someone else to take care of every situation for them. And making sure they stay that way by avoiding and morally condemning any behavior that would make them able to cope without Big Nanny when push comes to shove.
She could have spent the time, instead of hiding and quaking, plotting a way to sneak behind the shooter and crash a desk over his head. Open a bag of marbles and strew them on his next logical pathway to make him fall down. Anything.