You might be surprised to learn how little firearms training and testing many police officers do, and especially how unprepared most police officers would be in an active shooter scenario, since one needs to practice sound tactics to act offensively against a shooting, suicidal threat. Although, the ones posted in…

On first aid: can you cite your source on CPR and/or AEDs hurting more often than helping? Seems like a lot of Red Cross classes and AED machines exist, for them to be more likely to hurt.

Gosh, I never even thought of aiming. Thank goodness you jumped into the discussion. Kickback? You clearly know your weapons terminology, ya know.

Then don't carry one. No one is suggesting teacher CCW should be mandatory, just that it not be prohibited for those who wish to do it. Those so inclined would likely be proficient and willing to engage, and their possible presence in every classroom makes attacking any classroom a much less attractive endeavor. …

These are good points. It would certainly be worth a look at the potential negatives of CCW vis-a-vis violent, unpredictable students who are prone to heat-of-the-moment situations, although my initial reaction would be to expel students or disband schools where students exhibit that sort of thuggish, prison yard…

You certainly have a lot to say about shooting and defensive tactics. What are your qualifications in those areas, if you please? I'm a former military combat aircrew officer, a certified firearms instructor, a CHL holder in three states, and a person with 36 years of shooting experience with rifles, shotguns, and…

You wear it on your person, or you lock it in your drawer and keep the keys on your person. If you hear shooting, you get the gun, you tell the kids to go to the corner, and you stand in a different corner, pointing your gun at the door. If the door opens and the person coming through it has his own gun out and is…

Just because one owns a gun and knows how to use it for self protection does not mean a) one wants to do so, and b) one's success will be guaranteed. Like vaccinations and fire extinguishers, guns greatly improve the odds; they are not foolproof.

We can't keep weapons from entering and killing from happening in prisons. What makes you think you can stop either in a country of 4M square miles. The arrogance...

I've flown with mine in my wallet four round-trips in the last two years. Either the TSA doesn't see it, or they don't care.

What does this anti-gun tirade have to do with technology? The AR-15 was designed in the 1950s and has been sold to civilians in the exact same form since the early 60s. I don't come to Gizmodo to hear this sort of political editorializing.

I agree. Our views differ. My summary:

He didn't escalate the situation, they did. He responded to their escalation.

I could show you plenty of studies that show booger-eating monkeys banging on their keyboards *might* cause cancer. Anything *might* cause cancer.

Do you have any experience with firearms or law enforcement? On what generally accepted principle do you base your assertion? Is it your position that police officers may not discharge their firearms unless they can guarantee hitting their target? If so, your statement reflects a position based somewhere far away…

Gosh, she must have been so afraid for her "CHILDREN" that she completely forgot about her role as one of a fleeing trio of criminals and the completely easy route of surrendering to the arresting deputy. Instead, the driver's panic and chain of poor decisions led to her accomplice's absorbing one of the deputy's…

One never sees the authors of posts such as this making any firm commitments to be the first in line. Did you mean *other* humans?

Gee, I wish we could just spend our money on unicorn food, rainbow projectors, "free" cell phones for all, and a big concert where we all hug and sing Kumbaya.

This is ridiculous.

This training that police officers receive is probably much less than you imagine. Most officers must go stand on a firing line and shoot a stationary target to qualify periodically, maybe once or twice a year. Most officers do not shoot combat courses, practice rapid fire, do malfunction drills, or train in any way…