And the perpetrator also had a handgun. That helps keep the drug dealers away from the kids and it most certainly would make any misguided juvenile delinquent with a gun think twice. El Cajon Police Agent Rich Agundez, Jr. deserves all of our thanks. Let him know what you think. Then, ask why your local schools do not have an Officer Friendly helping out while the kids are there.
Kids deserve to be safe at school.
That is, the first few officers responding to a school for a shooting immediately enter the building as a team and go after the shooter. Their only function is to get the shooter as soon as possible. Towards that end, they are trained to keep moving until they encounter the shooter and to ignore everything else until that is accomplished. After the initial team secures a path, back-up officers can take care of everything else. These are not SWAT teams.