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True. But there was very little running by ANY of the cops that showed up at Columbine that day. Even the SWAT team members, as they arrived separately and in groups, stayed outside the building, fully armed and armored, while the carnage was continuing inside.

Those men were trained and equipped to handle situations like this, and they did NOTHING. The number of assailants might have been unknown, but the fact there students were being murdered inside WAS known. Do we pay our police to protect the public (at large, in general) only when they have superior numbers, superior firepower, and no chance of injury?

Wether this was due to cowardice or policy varies from officer to officer, as several officers stated that they were ready and willing to enter the building, but were told to stay outside.

All in all, though, it was a catastrophic failure in both intercepting known agitants and ending the carnage. If C&H had not taken their own lives, I don't doubt that the killing would have continued, unabated.

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You can't go running into a building with no tactical information. What we don't pay the police to do is throw their lives away in poorly planned illconceived attempts at heroics.