Based on this account, I think the best opportunity to take out the killer, was when he was coming through the door. They had advance warning before he came to their class room. The shooter was most vulnerable to a hand to hand attack when he was pushing his way through the door. Dropping to the floor when Cho started shooting through the door was the "missed opportunity".
One guy to the side of the door, one guy to the other side of the door, would have been a good strategy when they let him through.
Even if untrained, men in this age group are in their prime. I think this illustrates that fighting back would have been a better choice.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18183450/site/newsweek/
One guy to the side of the door, one guy to the other side of the door, would have been a good strategy when they let him through.
Even if untrained, men in this age group are in their prime. I think this illustrates that fighting back would have been a better choice.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18183450/site/newsweek/
other students were trying to barricade the classroom door that for some reason wouldn't or couldn't lock. "After that, I saw bullet holes start coming through the door," Goddard said. "It looked like he was trying to shoot the lock out. When he started firing at the door, I hit the floor."
After a few seconds, Cho came into the room. Goddard, his view of the classroom door partly obstructed by a desk, got his first glimpse of the killer. "He had on boots, dark pants and a white shirt. All of the students were on the ground, and he just started walking down the rows of desks, shooting people multiple times. He didn't say anything. He didn't demand anything. He was just shooting." The 911 operator was still on the phone, and Goddard, not wanting to draw attention to himself, dropped it to the floor. A girl named Heidi picked it up, begging the police to hurry. But it was too late, and Cho turned toward them. "I think he heard the police on the phone," Goddard said. "He shot some people near me, he shot the girl across from me in the back. Then I felt a very forceful rush of air and a pinch or a sting in my leg." Goddard felt himself flinch when the bullet hit him, but he did his best to stay still, to play dead. "Nobody tried to get up and be a hero," he said. Then the shooting stopped.
Goddard resisted the urge to move or try to look around. "I thought he was still in the room." Soon the gunshots started again, back out in the hallway; other sounds in the classroom were now audible. A few students were calling out to each other, Goddard said. ........
Suddenly, the classroom door burst open again. The killer was back. "He came back in and started going around the room again, shooting people." Up one aisle and down another, Cho moved through the room, repeating the path he had taken the first time. When the killer reached Goddard, he felt two more bullets punch into his body, one in the shoulder, and one in his buttocks. "My chest and torso were kind of underneath a desk, that's why I think I got shot in my extremities,"