What the Colorado School Shooting Can Show Our Virginia Legislators About Gun Control

By now, you probably heard of the recent Colorado school shooting. But, did you know a quick acting Sheriff's deputy probably prevented more deaths?

Via CNN

The rampage might have resulted in many more casualties had it not been for the quick response of a deputy sheriff who was working as a school resource officer at the school, Robinson said.

Once he learned of the threat, he ran — accompanied by an unarmed school security officer and two administrators — from the cafeteria to the library, Robinson said. “It’s a fairly long hallway, but the deputy sheriff got there very quickly.”

According to Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson, “The deputy was yelling for people to get down and identified himself as a county deputy sheriff. We know for a fact that the shooter knew that the deputy was in the immediate area and, while the deputy was containing the shooter, the shooter took his own life.”

Remember, Colorado also recently passed strict new gun control laws. But the new gun control laws didn't stop the cowardly shooter Karl Pierson, who reportedly bought the shotgun a week before the shooting, now did they?

We used to have a 'school resource officer' in the halls when I was in school here in Alexandria, Virginia. Our Virginia legislators should work to restoring funding for these folks instead of passing gun control legislation. As this incident shows, no amount of gun control laws is going to help prevent incidents like this.

(Cross posted @ The Alexandrian)