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> If even 1 in 20 or fewer teachers at a school were people who were responsible and trained and carried guns for self-defense then these sorts of attacks would be far less common. Because the attacks would be ended sooner by armed citizens acting in defense. And because then schools and other places would no longer be defenseless.

I call BS on this. In such a situation there's a lot of confusion and panic about what is exactly happening. It's not like everyone knows how many shooters there are and how they look like. Someone pulling out a gun can easily mistaken to be an attacher and could be attacked himself by someone else trying to be good samaritan while himself being mistook for an attacker by the original good samaritan resulting in chaos. This is not like the movies where everyone knows who the bad and good guys are.

>>recoil+(OP)
Of course, it's not easy. But it's not impossible either. A good samaritan may not always be able to help, but sometimes they can. In such a situation they'd definitely need to be careful, and in general it's inappropriate for armed civilians to try to act like police in situations like this (e.g. hunting down the attacker). But armed civilians can protect the people they are around, and they can stop the shooter from just going from room to room willy nilly (as happened at Virginia Tech) until they run out of bullets. More than that, as I mentioned, by preventing schools from becoming the havens of defenseless individuals that they are today it will have a deterrent effect against attackers. The reason why schools are such a common choice is precisely because there are lots of people there and everyone knows they are defenseless.