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Originally Posted by Outofdodge  ....The fantasy that students packing could have prevented this is just supposition..... |
We have seen at least two occasions were armed private citizens cut a school shooting short. In 2002 at the Appalachian School of Law two students ran to their cars to retrieve a firearm and returned to end the shooting. In 1997 a Pearl MS vice principal ran off campus to retrieve his 45 Colt and stopped a shooting rampage when he confronted the shooter. In both cases it wasn’t necessary to kill the shooter and the shooter was held for the police. Those ain’t suppositions.
Call it luck or whatever you want to but without the intervention of armed private citizens the death toll could have been higher. On thing is for sure, banning guns hasn’t worked. Last year the VA legislature killed a bill that would have allowed CCW holders to carry on a collage campus. Bad timing.