[sperry]

You guys are basically arguing which direction should I face when getting hit by a Mac Truck. Fight, Flight, "Play Dead"... they're all pretty hopeless. I'd like to think I'd try to do something to save myself, if not others in the room, but who knows really what I'd do. I gotta think that running for it would give you at least a tiny bit more chance, since you're a moving target... but if the guy's not actually intent on killing everyone, that also makes you into a higher priority target for him.

Would 10 people rushing him have worked? Probably, but you can't get 10 people to work together to order sandwiches... so unless the VT Rugby team was in that room, I got to think the gunman would be able to stop a "rush".

All in all, it's an extremely sad situation. The real issue here is not "what to do when the gunman attacks", or about gun control vs. CCW or 2nd Amendment rights (as this situation seems to be bringing up over at NASIOC), it's really a question of "what makes people snap like this, and how to we prevent it". This poor kid lost his shit and decided to kill himself and take a bunch of people with him... that's not normal behavior... I guess considering the population of the nation and our belief that freedom trumps safety, we should expect something like this every few decades, but a kid in school should have the resources available to him to get help before it comes to this.