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."