Last year in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, \u00a0Wayne LaPierre of the NRA stated the best solution to school shooting sprees was armed staff – police on school service duty, security guards or teachers with carry permits – on school grounds.<\/p>\n
The usual pants-wetting crowd on the left squealed like they’d gotten a knitting needle jammed in their eyes.<\/p>\n
The takeaway from last week’s shooting at a school and “gun free zone” in Arapahoe County Colorado<\/a>, where a committed leftist student critically injured a classmate before killing himself, was this; the incident lasted 80 seconds, because <\/em>there was an immediate armed response<\/a> by a school service officer.<\/p>\n The rampage might have resulted in many more casualties had it not been for the quick response of a deputy sheriff who was working as a school resource officer at the school, [Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson] said…He praised the deputy\u2019s response as \u201ca critical element to the shooter\u2019s decision\u201d to kill himself, and lauded his response to hearing gunshots. \u201cHe went to the thunder,\u201d he said. \u201cHe heard the noise of gunshot and, when many would run away from it, he ran toward it to make other people safe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n