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One armed teacher or security guard could have stopped this tragedy far short of where it finally ended.

The school has an armed municipal police officer on duty at all times -- they call them Resource Officers. They are real cops, not minimum wage rent-a-cops.

By the time the cop got to the wing of the school where the events occurred it was all over -- 20 people wounded and the perp had been subdued. It all went down very fast and these schools are very big.

Plus, do you really want the cop to open up with a .40 cal in a hallway full of kids?

I have been addressing some of the posts here today also and I also live about 5 miles away in northeast Murrysville.

Don't forget about the kid who was stabbed, but also had the sense of presence to pull the fire alarm. Very smart move.

The students, staff, LEOs, first responders and triage units were truly amazing today. The 911 timeline shows the scene was secured and triaged from the beginning of the incident to dust off in less than half an hour. A couple of students were in the OR within 40 minutes. This is why there were no deaths (so far). They were cared for efficiently and effectively within the golden hour by fellow students to surgeons.

Many of the victims did not know they had been stabbed. That is the insidious nature of stab wounds.

“Plus, do you really want the cop to open up with a .40 cal in a hallway full of kids?”

Obviously not, but equally obviously, they didn’t have a well thought out plan for this kind of an emergency either. If what you say is true, they really need to rethink their strategy to keep the student body safe. At least in this case, the LEO wasn’t dealing with someone who had a gun, so he should have been able to use his weapon from a relatively short distance if he had been able to reach the scene. Actually, your commentary is proof positive that teachers need to be armed. “When seconds count, the cops are minutes away.” Prayers for the injured. From what I have read the injuries were very severe in at least four of the wounded. And at least in this instance the weapon of choice was not a firearm, so now the gun grabbers have to figure out how to spin this incident. The reality is, that we are dealing with disturbed people and not the availability of a gun. Other weapons can do a lot of damage as this tragedy has shown.