Quote Originally Posted by jojo View Post
It might be a 30 second run if the halls are empty if everyone is running scared for there life its gonna be a bit harder to get thru the crowd, somewhat akin to going the wrong way down the streets with the running of the bulls. Even if they made it in 30 seconds, it takes very little time to unload a full magazine of ammo into a class room full of students and by then it will be a little late. Having someone that can respond properly right there right then could be a good solution.
Hmmm, maybe, but you should also bear in mind that even if ES/HS teachers are allowed to CCW, most of them won't--it's not like there's going to be an armed teacher in every class, so an armed teacher responding to a shooting is probably going to have the same problems getting to the scene that a cop would. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it--the more people around to possibly intervene in a shooting, the better--but what I'm saying is that when schools already have cops stationed at them, armed teachers become decidedly less important as a safety measure. Again, the real issue is that it's often not practical to keep cops at all the schools all the time.

Also, school shootings usually don't produce a flood of people crowding into the halls. The regular procedure is for teachers to keep their students in the class room and try to lock/block the door.