Blair, you have the right idea.
I think Israel had the same problem with the Arabs going to their schools and killing children and teachers. The problem stopped when the teachers were armed. I know that the suggestion might go against a lot of peoples thoughts in this country, but how many times do you see a police station, gun shop or shooting range a target of a crazy person like this?
All the laws and regulations in the world won't stop anyone from breaking the laws, they are in place to punish them after the fact.
The only good (if you could call it that) that happened during this horrible tragedy is that the gunman killed himself. No long drawn out court hearings.
Sunil, I don't know if telling the kids will benefit them in any way. Will they truly understand what happened? I agree with teaching them how to respond in a emergency tho.
Blair, why do you think we aren't seeing this all over the news reports?
http://www.kgw.com/news/Clackamas-man-armed-confronts-mall-shooter-183593571.html 
