I absolutely hate responding to your news stories. Here's why:
- The title is misleading, and after finding out about the real story, I do not want to bother responding.
- Your commentary comes off as a rant. Proof?
1) That school is going to be sued for millions in "emotional distress" law suits.
That's great if you believe that. This is probably the least-frustrating response.
2) What FARKING IDIOT thought that drill up?!
You could have gotten the point across just as well -- if not better -- if you avoided USING OVERLY ACTIVE SENTENCES (THE ! WITH THE ? WAS NOT NECESSARY) THAT DIDN'T INVOLVE CAPS LOCK OR PROFANE WORDS (POORLY CENSORED) AND DEROGATORY INSULTS TO SOMEONE WHO GETS PAID TO DO THEIR JOB. Some people here might actually think that it was a good exercise.
I personally do. The gun was a
red plastic toy gun, and the assailant was a
campus police officer. Maybe it's different for larger schools/universities, but I know and recognize all the campus security at my school. Next, he said he was going to
kill the student with the lowest GPA because he
needed a lung transplant. I don't know about you, but that doesn't sound very menacing. How is he to check or confirm? On top of all of this,
they sent out BOTH e-mails and text messages to notify people of the drill. It's a perfect check if the system works, and apparently it doesn't work as well as it should.
3) 10 minutes for the police to respond to a gunman that they knew about?! If THAT doesn't make a good case for concealed carry on campus I don't know what does.
[4) ]It would be interesting to see what would've played out if a student was carrying [a handgun], I bet the gunman would be down and that the student would be exonerated.
Nothing makes for a good case for "concealed carry on campus." Ten minutes is a fine amount of time for the police to get there. The risks in having students "packing heat" FAR outweighs the benefits that there are. How often is a school shot up? Is it worth carrying a gun for the ~3 days every year this occurs, when the other 362 pose risks?
And if a student was indeed carrying a gun, and unloaded a clip into the shooter before confirming he was a threat (you know, you could point the gun at the attacker and talk him down, and I'm sure once he "surrendered" and saw he was carrying a red plastic toy gun and wasn't an actual threat) he'd be going to jail or at the very least, losing his CWP (concealed weapons permit? dunno).
