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Footballguy
You could have used this same thing to describe the church shooting this week. Perhaps, in the chaos, other parishioners were hit by friendly fire. I've made this argument already and am not looking to rehash it.Indeed.
Picture a school shooting. The normal hustle and bustle of the school day is fractured when a couple of shots ring out. Screams are heard and kids start running this way and that. Some kids shelter in place as taught and some just run. there is acrid gun smoke in the air and maybe that sets off fire sprinklers. Regardless probably the fire alarms are going off adding to the cacophony and confusion. Teachers reach for their guns while their kids are asking them what to do. There are bangs as desks are flipped over and books dropped, confusing where the gunshots are coming from with all the noise. The teachers go out into the hall to bravely hunt down the shooter, or maybe they train their weapon on their classroom door. There is sudden movement, an opening of the door, or an unknown adult moving in the hallway. The teacher shoots, and misses, because that is what even experienced shooters do in such circumstances more often than not. Good thing too as the person they saw was a parent who had been lawfully admitted to the school for a parent/teacher conference. Sadly though the bullet does not stop upon the miss but travels through the wall into the next classroom, school walls not being designed to stop bullets. It hits little Meaghan who does not die instantly, but messily, bleeding all over the floor and defying her teachers efforts to stem the bleeding by applying pressure. her class mates are terrified and some try to flee, adding to the confusion.
Me, the most force I can advocate for non-professionals in a school setting is nonlethal force, Tasers or bean bag weapons perhaps. I know this, I would not want the responsibility of being the shooter in such a scenario.
But, in your story, you only give one possible solution. But, as was the case with this reason church shooting, the shooter began to fire, someone pulled out their weapon and neutralized the shooter. Preventing further deaths.
I didn't need to paint a vivid picture, or name the victim (little Meaghan) in order to prove my point. It removes the emotion from the equation.
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