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Originally Posted by DGTess
At Columbine, had a teacher or staff member been armed, fewer would LIKELY have died.
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Nobody is going to change anyone's mind about carrying weapons. However, to keep the record straight, at Columbine, there was a serving, veteran Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy assigned to, and at the school, who exchanged gunfire with one of the shooters as the incident began just outside before losing him when he went into the school building proper.
The scene was total chaos, as this link shows:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/col...UTIES_TEXT.htm
I'm sorry, but I just can't imagine that additional armed students or faculty might not have caused more damage than good.
In addition, if you watch the news coverage of the event, you will see that as the students were evacuated, they had their hands on their heads so that officers on the scene would not have to consider them as potentially dangerous.
Police made mistakes at Columbine, resulting in the "Active Shooter" training they now receive, but can you imagine what the reaction might be if an officer came upon an innocent student or faculty member with a pistol in her/his hand in this kind of chaos? Or if the untrained person with the gun had shot the wrong person or persons? Frankly, I think that is more "likely" than saving lives, unless the student/faculty member was highly trained.