Arming the schools with empathy
by digby
I think this shows that school officials armed with common sense, courage and empathy are more effective than those armed with guns:
[I]t appears as though one major reason the nation isn’t mourning another Newtown today is the level-headed reaction of a school clerk who spent an hour talking the gunman down after he arrived in the school office.
“I just started talking to him … and let him know what was going on with me and that it would be OK,” the clerk, Antoinette Tuff, told Atlanta’s Channel 2 Action News during a lengthy sit-down interview that should be watched in full (embedded above). In a subsequent interview with ABC News, Tuff described Hill as “a young man that was ready to kill anybody that he could.”