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How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Ray Sanchez reports at CNN that the handling of Friday's shooting at Arapahoe High School, just 10 miles from the scene of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, drew important lessons from the earlier bloodshed. At Arapahoe High School, where senior Claire Davis, 17, was critically injured before the shooter turned the gun on himself, law enforcement officers responded within minutes and immediately entered the school to confront the gunman rather than surrounding the building. As the sound of shots reverberated through the corridors, teachers immediately followed procedures put in place after Columbine, locking the doors and moving students to the rear of classrooms. "That's straight out of Columbine," says Kenneth Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services. "The goal is to proceed and neutralize the shooter. Columbine really revolutionized the way law enforcement responds to active shooters." Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson credits the quick police response time for the fact that student Karl Pierson, the gunman, stopped firing on others and turned his weapon on himself less than 1 minute, 20 seconds after entering the school. Authorities knew from research and contact with forensic psychologists that school shooters typically continue firing until confronted by law enforcement. "It's very unfortunate that we have to say that there's a textbook response on the way to respond to these," says Trump, "because that textbook was written based on all of the incidents that we've had and the lessons learned (PDF).""
If you're attempting a school shooting you know you're gonna die eventually. Might as well go for a high score, go out with a bang (literally I might add)
Every time we have yet another NRA sponsored massacre we have the gun nuts round to say the answer is more nuts with guns.
You are worse than pedophiles in my view.
Where were these slef styles defenders of liberty when Bush was setting up the gulag in Gitmo and using torture? They were cheering him on. If there ever was a fascist takeover of the US, the NRA would be there in their jackboots and pillowcases rounding up opponents to help the new regime.
Take the guns away, every damn one.
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I'm from Germany, were gun laws are much, MUCH stricter and therefore we aren't seeing such tragedies on a yearly basis like it's come to be anticipated in the US
German tragedies were in the 1930's and 1940's after civilian disarmament.
To think you are made of finer clay is naive.
Twenty years ago, you could reasonably argue which of the following is more true:
a) Assuring criminals that law abiding citizens are defenseless victims will encourage more attacks
or
b) Adding another law will cause criminals to start following the law and turn in their guns.
It's now been tried, so we know the answer. The UK banned guns to the point that there own Olympic shooting team has to go abroad to practice.
Comparing Home Office crime statistics for the five years after the ban vs. the five years before the ban, murder, rape, robbery, and total violent crime all roughly doubled when citizens were disarmed.
It's no longer a question of what WOULD happen, we know what DID happen. When women were told they can't defend themselves, twice as many got raped. It's not 1990 anymore - we now no what gun bans do. We have the information now to understand that anti self-defense is pro-rape
True. Keep your second amendment weapons.
But please, only the ones that were around when the second amendment was written. At a shot rate of maybe 1 per minute, and its accuracy, everybody wins.