genuine question: have the various police forces revised their policies on the correct tactics to adopt in the case of a school shooting? I know that in Montreal since the massacre at the Polytechnique, the police has changed its policy and has adopted “a storm the building and search and destroy approach” to school shootings as opposed to the previous “secure the scene and evaluate or wait and see”.
The new policy worked extremely well last fall when a gunman entered a downtown college at lunch time with multiple weapons. He was pursued and shot down almost immediately and only managed to kill one young girl.
I think it depends on the PD. If you think the individual inside is a loon, bent on killing everyone and you have nothing to lose, then sure, storming the building is the way to go, but remember PD’s are in a lose/lose enviroment now. When you storm a high occupancy building like a school, you have an excellent chance of causing the loss of innocent life by your actions, now that may outweigh the negative consequences if you are convinced that everyone (or a significant number) is going to die anyway. But imagine the heat the police would take if they storm a school and by doing so innocent children die by police gunfire (ricochet, misidentification, used as human shields) when the media and parents find out Joe Wacko would have come out for a peanut butter sandwich.