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).""

Comments

Re:police arive within 'minutes'

[flyneye]

NRA didn't have any more to do with that than NOW had to do with your menstrual rant.

Perhaps an education in what you are talking about could eventually replace the embarrassment you would feel at your emo regurgitation of cliche' estrogen whining popularized in dumb blonde jokes.

Arm the teachers. No different than arming a cop. Train the teachers( hey, if this is a problem, it's time to adapt to it, Liberal whining is as good as a UN decision any day. Let's try pro-active approaches instead of the same old shit.) Deploy the teachers. ESPECIALLY in bad neighborhoods in liberal cities with massive urban decay.

Re:no you just have lots and lots of stabbings and

[Zeinfeld]

Newtown took place in the heart of gun-nut country, not the inner cities.

The number of gun deaths in rural America are way higher than in Europe.

The typical gun murder is of a family member. Those happen just as often in rural America, in fact they are rather more frequent because guns are easier to come by.

Re: police arive within 'minutes'

[jedidiah]

> Ok, I'll call your bullshit. Do you realize the data you're pointing to does NOT validate your argument?

You're a moron if you think you are any less safe in a comparable place in the US than anywhere else in the world. We don't have a gun problem. We have a poverty problem masked as a gun problem.

Your likeliehood of being a victim of violence is related to poverty, not the availibility of guns. In those areas where violence is likely, no one needs a gun to do you harm.

You're just a sheltered idiot.