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The guards at Columbine were under strict orders not to use their firearms under any circumstances. What is the purpose of being armed if you're not permitted to stop an attacker? They were also poorly trained. We have learned a lot thanks to Columbine but sadly we haven't applied any of what we have learned.
Can you provide a reference/source/link for your information please?
It can't happen here.... people need to wake up. It can happen ANYWHERE and f you fail to take even the most basic protective measures who is at fault? There has been a HISTORY of school shootings and the reason is there are many "targets" that can't defend themselves. Isn't up to the community to ensure these children are safe? Only a fool would think some sort of law would protect a child from the hands of a killer.
These killers are looking for a body count, they don't care about the law.
Actually thats exactly what government schools are.
Oh blow me. What a heinous thing to say. Those kids do not deserve that from you. They did not invite this upon themselves by their criminal lifestyle. What complete asshattery. Jesus.
Can you provide a reference/source/link for your information please?
Actually it was from an FBI report I read shortly after the shootings and I don't know where to find it now and am heading out the door to go to dinner, but I'm sure if you look it's still out there and you will find my comments accurate.. It wasn't much to remember.
It can't happen here.... people need to wake up. It can happen ANYWHERE and f you fail to take even the most basic protective measures who is at fault? There has been a HISTORY of school shootings and the reason is there are many "targets" that can't defend themselves. Isn't up to the community to ensure these children are safe? Only a fool would think some sort of law would protect a child from the hands of a killer.
These killers are looking for a body count, they don't care about the law.
How about if parents pack heat along with lunch for our children?
Not one of these people mentioned the lack of security controls at the school. The answer is some sort of useless gun control law? How about preventing a homicidal mental case from walking in the front door of a target rich environment? I heard some of the parents claim 11 children escaped because the shooter had to reload; how many would have escaped if the shooter couldn't get into the building?
I believe the citizens of Newtown are responsible for the death of the children. They FAILED to protect the children. Rather than admit failure they are blaming an inanimate object.
If you didn't want to hear their story you could have changed the damn channel.
Yeah, let's blame the parents because an elementary school wasn't armed and locked down like a maximum security prison
I stopped reading this thread after this post, which says it all.
The norm has always been, and should be, that children and teachers can be in a classroom without fear of death stalking them.
Of course, I am pragmatic. The new reality is that we have a lot of mentally ill people running about. I guess that schools have to bow to this new reality. So, yes, schools will have to take security measures, but society will also have to pitch in, such as rigorous background checks, the elimination of the 'gun show' loopholes, and banning certain weapons that are simply designed to kill a lot of people quickly.
Oh blow me. What a heinous thing to say. Those kids do not deserve that from you. They did not invite this upon themselves by their criminal lifestyle. What complete asshattery. Jesus.
Cap your fake outrage. my comment had nothing to do with the children and everything to do with the gun free government kill zone called a public school.
Actually it was from an FBI report I read shortly after the shootings and I don't know where to find it now and am heading out the door to go to dinner, but I'm sure if you look it's still out there and you will find my comments accurate.. It wasn't much to remember.
Don't make "drive-by posts" with inaccurate information. If you want to contribute, do your homework.
The guard was armed and did fire at the Columbine shooter.
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Yes, there was, and it was the guard's presence and the resistance he and others offered that kept the carnage less than it might have been.
On April 20, 1999, Neil Gardner, an armed sheriff's deputy who had been policing the school for almost two years, was eating lunch when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold arrived at Columbine with their deadly arsenal and deadlier intentions. Gardner said he got a call from a custodian that he was needed in the school's back parking lot. A few minutes later, he encountered Harris, and the two exchanged gunfire. The exchange with Harris lasted for an extended period of time, during which Harris' gun jammed.
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