I don’t know anything more than anyone else about the shooting in Connecticut at the moment, but it seems fairly obvious that there was no one at or near the school who could have tried to fight back.
Fight back? Now there’s an idea.
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Blithe Spirit 
Precisely — the reason killers target schools is that they are gun-free zones. They know they have plenty of time to terrorize and kill before police get there. Even if each school had a policeman, he could be disabled and killed by a determined murderer.
We need to get serious about incarcerating dangerous, unstable people. The “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Next” horror of institutionization has left people homeless, isolated, and a threat to themselves and others.
Another thought, the shooter was alleged to be autistic. Parents suing to get their children “mainstreamed” often just condemn them to friendlessness and isolation, especially in their teen years — a time of intense pressure for even for socially-adapted children who don’t have developmental or physical disabilities. We need to go back to schooling people with disabilities by their needs, not trying to pretend that including them in regular school settings makes them enabled. This doesn’t even begin to address the extra costs of mainstreaming — financial and distractions in the classroom.
Sometimes we need hard-headed solutions to problems in order to be truly compassionate.
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Very good points.
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