Originally Posted by retmil46

Gents, let's try a different tangent on this -

In this tragedy, we've been assuming that the only response is to fight fire with fire - armed teachers, armed guards, etc, armed with similar lethal weapons to the attacker.

What about fighting fire with water?

There's been several advances in NONLETHAL weapons and methods, ostensibly for riot, crowd, and prison control, over the past decade or so.

Many of these methods, used to incapacitate an attacker until the LEO's arrive, might be quite acceptable to teachers, parents, and the population as a whole - whereas lethal weapons on school grounds most probably would not - and much more likely to be used, from a psychological standpoint, as the person employing said device KNOWS that they can only incapacitate, not kill.

Ideas?