The police only had .38s and shotguns and couldn’t advance on the tpwer. A prof. at the school took his hunting rifle from his truck and returned fire making the shooter hide, this allowing the police to gain entrence to the. Building and kill him
Now the professor would be arrested for having a firearm on school grounds.
Try to imagine that today.
Houston McCoy, the hero who hated being called a hero. His shotgun blast brought Whitman down. McCoy died in 2012.
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