[marktwain]

Preparing to be a victim is not a strategy.

[homegroan]

I agree with that-a lot.

Sincerely,

Former Victim

[muawiyah]

NVCC is a very large school with several campuses. One thing typical of them is the large percentage of foreignborn students, particularly in the math classes.

I don't know this particular teacher, but if her class was typical of an NVCC math class those kids would have had to have translated what was going on before they could have taken action.

Preparedness requires that you come up with plans beforehand that can deal with EVERYTHING.

NVCC, or NOVA as we know it, needs a universal system easily taught to everyone ~ I was thinking of large flashing lights, sirens and arrugggahhh horns which can be triggered by instructors. The response would be the same as for fire or bomb ~ LEAVE THE BUILDING.

BTW, it's better to be facing down a guy with a gun outside in big open areas than locked up in a room with him!

Oh, and the locks on doors deals, they probably need to put locks on the doors.

[walford]

The academic setting is a perfect place to be a victim.

That is where the civilian version of unilateral disarmament was born.
That is where the disdain for personal empowerment with respect to self-defense and self-reliance thrives.
That is where the idea that some victims need to be sacrificed so we will see that we cannot fend for ourselves and need Philosopher Kings to run our lives.
That is therefore where a perpetrator can be comfortable in knowing that his victims will be defenseless.

[Carley]

Janet Nappy insists that Homeland Security is meant to be First Responders.

That is the exact mentality that will get us all killed.

[stevie_d_64]

I wonder how many calls Colgan got telling him he is an idiot...

I was thinking about this yesterday when I was shooting my Marlin “lever-action” 1895...It is a fantasic firearm, and one of my favorites...And it works really well when you take care of it...

Obviously the dimwit with the rifle in this incident is dumber than a bag of hammers to begin with, but that is another story...

All I know is that the new and improved AWB contains an appendix “A” that enumerates ALL the bad guns that need to be banned...

And strangely you think that rifles like this would be “safe” from banning...nuh uhhhh!!! You’ll see, if you do a little digging...

So much for “legitimate” hunting rifles being acceptable by the gun-controllers...hehehe, suckers!!!

[john in springfield]

There was no "preparedness," no effective strategy to deal with this.

Just like the airplane underwear bomber. The "system" failed completely.

The only saving grace was that, in both cases, the attacker failed as completely as did the system.

1. This was NOT a mass murder scenario in the first place. No one goes into a "kill them all" attack armed solely with a bolt-action rifle. This was a targeted attack apparently on a single person.

It most definitely was NOT this:

If it had been, there would be MANY, MANY dead people right now.

2. Even with a bolt-action rifle, it was sheer luck that saved the day.

3. And no, disarming all of the potential victims didn't help.