Maetenloch:
Because there was an armed deputy sheriff at the school who raced towards the shooting and ended the attack in just 80 seconds. Thanks to his quick response only one student (still in critical condition) was shot.
The rampage might have resulted in many more casualties had it not been for the quick response of a deputy sheriff who was working as a school resource officer at the school, Robinson said.Once he learned of the threat, he ran – accompanied by an unarmed school security officer and two administrators – from the cafeteria to the library, Robinson said. “It’s a fairly long hallway, but the deputy sheriff got there very quickly.”
The deputy was yelling for people to get down and identified himself as a county deputy sheriff, Robinson said. “We know for a fact that the shooter knew that the deputy was in the immediate area and, while the deputy was containing the shooter, the shooter took his own life.”He praised the deputy’s response as “a critical element to the shooter’s decision” to kill himself, and lauded his response to hearing gunshots. “He went to the thunder,” he said. “He heard the noise of gunshot and, when many would run away from it, he ran toward it to make other people safe.”
The shooter who was 18 apparently bought the shotgun legally and it turns out that he was an avowed socialist who was also anti-gun. But you’d never learn this fact if you only listened to the self-censoring MFM.
I’m shocked, shocked!
Didn’t the deputy know proper police procedures? He was supposed to retreat and call it in so heavily-armed reinforcements could arrive and “secure the perimeter.” Then and only then, after several hours of meticulous preparation should they have opened negotiations.
Has no one learned the lessons of Columbine?
@Doramin: #1
Columbine was different, as if EVERY situation. If I remember correctly, the shooters had placed explosives around the school, and the police didn’t know if they could be detonated remotely, or by motion sensors.