[jiggyboy]

A couple of links in:

"Open Carry Texas pointed out the UT shooting was partially suppressed by armed students on campus who loaned cops their guns..."

Wait, what?

[OKSooner]

Actually my understanding is that when Whitman started shooting people the first people to respond were UT students who happened to have .22 rifles in their gun racks in their pickups. It was a different time.

I hadn't heard about anyone loaning the cops a firearm, although one might suppose that a patrolman showed up packing only a revolver and could have been loaned a rifle by a civilian/student.

I've also heard that the civilians (students) shooting at Whitman contributed to taking him down, keeping him pinned down and... I think I heard, wounding him, which was helpful to the cops running up the stairs of the bell tower.

I'm sure someone will come along to clarify this; I wasn't 10 years old yet when this happened.

[PROCON]

That’s referring to the 1966 UT “Massacre” where students loaned their rifles to cops to take down the tower sniper.