Once Again, it was a Staff Member Who Got Between Children and a Bullet
I'm sure most of you saw the news yesterday about a heavily armed man entering a large (850 students) elementary school in Georgia. (Again, it was a locked-down school - meaning you had to be buzzed in but somehow he got in.) And yet, within a hour or so, he gave up his weapons (after a couple of shots back and forth with police). Why? Because school clerk, Antoinette Tuff, took the chance to try to talk to him. Amazing interview with Miss Tuff - this is the person you want in your child's school. From NPR : Tuesday's terrifying incident at an elementary school near Atlanta — in which a gunman with an assault rifle and other weapons entered the building — ended with no one being hurt after a school clerk apparently spent about an hour talking to the young man. She says she persuaded him to put his gun down and surrender. "He had me actually get on the intercom and tell everybody he was sorry too. But I told them, 'He was sorry, but do not come ou...