I saw a video that had the gunshots recorded. Violence happens so quickly, I believe that even if all the students were carrying weapons, the outcome would have been the same. I heard about twenty shots in the space of ten seconds on the video. Even professional soldiers can be taken by surprise and killed. These were just students in a classroom listening to a lecture.
My thought is this- there isn't a way to stop shootings like this, within the realm of living in a free society. Like I said above, violence happens *so* quickly. Its not like in the movies with long prolonged shoot-outs. In ten seconds twenty people were shot. The gunman had no concern for his own safety, so that even further reduces any possibility of stopping something like this.
The only way to remedy something like this is to prevent it from happening. I'm not talking about gun control. I'm talking about reporting unstable individuals who make claims of violence or threats to the police.
