This is really sad and the gun lobby (anti and pro) are going to have a hay day on this. The anti's are going to call for all kinds of bans. The pro's are going to stand really firm. Both are going to look silly defending there side about guns when they should be worried about the people affected.

I dont like the fact that there was not one hero out of the crowd. Those students were prepared to do exactly what they have been told. Hide and wait for police. People theses days are told to not do anything stupid and not to confront criminals. I'm not exactly sure what I would do in this situation but I would like to think that if I had the opportunity to throw a chair or a desk at the a$$hole I would. Or try to tackle him when he went to another room (providing I dont have a hole in me already).

As parents I'm sure this is exactly what you would tell your child. "Dont do anything stupid and save your hide so you can come home alive." I'm sure you wouldn't tell your child to be a hero and stop the shooter. Hero's just emerge in the heat of the moment but I'm surprised that there wasnt one during this shooting. Maybe there was but we just havent heard about it yet.

I am at a University five days a week. It scares the sh!t out of me when stuff like this happens. I dont think I'll start packing my .357 to school. We had a student robbed at gun point in the bathroom just down the hall a couple of months ago. We also had a student murdered by by some nut job that said the student was trying to steal his ora.

We need to police ourselves a little better.