Reply #33: what does this have to do [View All]

with would-be mass murderers selecting schools because they are "gun-free zones"?

Cho selected that school because he was a student there. Lépine selected his school because he had been denied admission to it.

The same criticisms were leveled against Montreal police in the Polytechnique case. Half the coroner's report (which I read when it came out) was devoted to an examination of the response of emergency services. The response was kind of crappy (keep in mind that this really was the first global occurrence of such an event and they had absolutely no idea what was going on), but in that case it turned out that Lépine had killed himself before any response units arrived on the scene, so their hanging around outside for two hours made no difference.

There are some situations in which there are no perfect responses, but certainly some responses are less perfect than others.