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In reply to the discussion: You arm a teacher. You train the teacher. A gunman enters the school building. [View all]lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)after a different mass shooting.
The video had 5 people (men and women) who had various degrees of gun "adeptness" ranging from "got safety training when I bought the gun and I target practice a few times a year" to "ex-military special forces". These people were attending a lecture on active shooter response. They had guns issued in the class that was the same weapon they owned. The guns were loaded with something like a paint ball rounds but the students didn't know that. During the week of lectures another "actor" entered the classroom and shot the teacher (fake but realistic looking) and then started to shoot at the students.
Every one of the students failed to take out the shooter with their paint ball round, even the ex-special forces guy.
I wish I could find it.
The conclusion was that only if you were constantly trained (like 20 hours a month or more ) in active shooter response would you even have a chance of taking out someone intent on shooting up a school (or movie theater or concert or nightclub or business celebration or ...)