I read the transcript and I agree with you. Both sides are way overreacting to the shootings in Connecticut we don’t need to take away guns from law abiding people and we do not need to make schools armed camps indistinguishable from maximum security prisons.
Terrible people do terrible things and I hate when it happens. But why didn’t the school follow its own policies about campus access (or did they?)? Why did it take the police so long to respond? If it is broken fix it but don’t go into full tilt panic mode and respond without thinking.
I would also point out, regarding the police, that at Columbine the police encircled the school and waited while the two cowards inside continued to murder people.
The police were absolutely useless and gutless at Columbine.
Putting an armed guard in every school and relying on the police will not work.
Allow adults who actually care about the children to carry.
Victoria Soto bravely exposed herself to that little worm's gunfire to shield her children from him, even though she was unarmed.
If that courageous woman had a weapon, fewer families would be in mourning right now.