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Originally Posted by polak
How would the cop be able do anything if he has no idea the shooter is coming? He is powerless until he is aware of the situation. All the shooter would need to do is create a situation outside that the cop would need to attend to and then take him out.
Set off a bunch of car alarms, light a fire, break a window etc...
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Access to military grade body armour means armed guards anywhere are all but useless, a better idea would be to change building codes so that all school doors are steel framed and lockable from the inside by teachers or students so that when things go wrong the classrooms themselves become a safe place to wait for the police. Add to that an intruder alert bell different from the fire bell and you could at least minimise some casualties.
Bottom line though is if the US want to give everybody guns they have to be prepared for 10 to 15,000 deaths a year and there is nothing that will stop that
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This way of thinking is so defeatist though. Because it might not work we should just do nothing until the only full solution is implemented? Gun control means a long, protracted argument. Let's all hope we see it one day soon.
In the meantime though we have these wackos out there. Its a sad state of affairs when we basically say that this might not work as well as we would like, or is too expensive, or whatever other excuse we find, so we're going to do nothing but talk about how terrible this is.