Posted on 02/15/2008 4:45:23 PM PST by traviskicks
Ok let’s do this the simple way.
Arm every student with a dazzling laser.
Or even a strobe flash gun!
They ever work the numbers when an unarmed unit charges the assailant?
Let me know if that number works out to less than 100% casualties.
So when the Virginia Tech Shooter chained the building doors shut and blockaded the doors to individual classrooms with his body it is your contention the only way to avoid 100 % casualties (???!!!) is for the students to "give the assailant what he wants" and patiently line up facing the wall to await their turn for a bullet to the head?
Let me know how well that works out for your son or daughter or the children of your friends.
Virginia Tech? I thought we were discussing NIU. At NIU, the students had the opportunity to escape. Are you saying they should have charged the shooter instead?
The title of this thread is "Another Gun Massacre at a Gun Free College Campus.
162 students who attempt to simultaneously flee through three or four available exits while under fire in a lecture hall with no knowledge the assailant has not mimiced a previous Gun Free Campus shooting by locking the doors engage in the worst possible course of action.
162 students who simultaneously pelt a shooter at the front of the lecture hall with books, Ipods, shoes, chairs and any other available object irrevocably alter the dynamics of the assault in their favor.
Once the shooter has been diverted into an internal "failure cascade" ( a sequence of events from which even trained and experienced operatives would be unlikely to recover) a few students closest to the assailant would have an opportunity to physically confront/tackle/punch/disable said shooter.
The students at NIU had no knowledge they had an opportunity to flee and armed with the best and brightest minds of the next generation should have rejected the option of flight instantly.
Had they received Universal Military Training or even been exposed to the mindset common to a generation from which they are not far removed they would have known exactly what to do.
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