Their only chance was to rush him all at once.
There weren’t enough available at any one moment to rush him with his two guns and his methodology.
Did you note where the roomates said he was working out in the gym. He was in pretty good shape.
Also the one teacher came down from the 3rd floor, it said he had military training and he was dead. This kid was persistant.
I was thinking that someone could have, after holding the door, then slip away from the door like in the movies. Then when he opened the door they could slam the door on him as he came through.
But who is thinking like that. The guy walks in the room, just walks up to people and starts shooting them. Nobody expects that, they expect him to ask a question, you think you could answer correctly, or reason, or talk him out of it, but there was nothing like that. No chance to be valiant, just time to dive under the desk.
I kind of liked the headline. It says someone was either resigned or prepared to die, but had some sort of, not finality, not peace, but a resolve about it.
It reminded me of a story a friend told me about scuba diving. He was on his first real dive, with two friends and two flashlights. They were going into a cave, and at some point he turned wrong and was separated.
Sitting in the cave, under water, in the pitch black, with 20 minutes of air, he realised he was going to die. He said knowing it was actually “peaceful”. Of course, he knew where he was going.
Fortunately, his friends found him. And fortunately, this person didn’t die under that table.
I can’t imagine having to live with the horror these kids will live with, having watched that, having that nagging doubt about what they might have done differently. I hope they realise they did what they had the power to do, and nobody has the right to tell them they needed to do differently.