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Originally Posted by GregWeld
If I have "intent" -- the first guy that gets taken by surprise is the guy with a gun. There's so many doors in a school - they're large places - they're "porous" with windows (usually low) etc. They're porous with people coming and going at all hours. I worked playground duty for 5 or 6 years at our kids elementary school. The traffic in and out was constant - and from multiple doors. Look at Columbine... that was a GROUP of students! That wasn't a random insane adult from outside. That was planned... So to me - if they knew there was armed resistance - that would have just been incorporated into the plan - a simple distraction at one end of the school - draw the officer into a trap... and now we would have just added to the death count and added another weapon and ammo and armor to be used at the scene.
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I agree but the criminals in these cases are not highly trained Navy seals. They are sick kids. The positives of having a trained officer/solidier outweigh the negatives. This particular wacko committed suicide once he knew armed police were on the scene. He prayed on the innocent because he was a coward.