[dirtboy]

I would hope we could all curtail the 2nd Amendment debate on this thread and save it for another time. This is not the time or place for such. This wasn't a large public school. It was a one-room schoolhouse in the middle of the country. Nothing short of two armed men posted at the school every school day would have stopped this evil man - and that simply will not happen at every one-room Amish school (and there are thousands of them). We need to realize that guns cannot stop all evil - that sometimes, evil will destroy the most vulnerable to targets just because it can, and there is nothing we can do about it but mourn afterwards.

[Joe Brower]

I understand and respect what you are saying. Nothing would please me more than curtailing the 2nd Amendment debate here. Unfortunately, these events never fail to bring out those who would forfeit everyone's God-given rights for a false promise of safety. Such rantings cannot go unchallenged.

As for "Nothing short of two armed men posted at the school every school day would have stopped this evil man", I disagree. One individual on the scene with the proper mindset, armed or not, reacting in proper fashion the second the incident begins, often stops such atrocities in short order.

Been there, done that.

[bonfire]

Good post, dirtboy.

[CindyDawg]

This community had no reason to expect this to happen. I believe it is very unfair to criticize them, when they probably felt their kids were in one of the safest schools around. They don't need people beating them up with the what they could have done. It could have happened anywhere. We have had two other schools attacked this last week too. The second had an alert janitor and a principal that gave up his life to protect his kids. Would they both have been so alert if another school had not just been attacked? Unfortunately ,it seems we have to learn, after evilness committed because it's just beyond understanding to figure these killers out IMO. These good folk will work out their own security. It may not be our way but they will change some stuff.