From July 31, 2009 KRGC channel 13 in Missouri:
COLUMBIA -- It was an issue discussed during the legislative session this past spring, and it was a hot topic for discussion Thursday during a panel discussion at conference sponsored by the Missouri School Boards Association. The subject is campus violence.
The issue is whether to allow people to be armed at school for their own protection. School administrators and resource officers face a potential for campus tragedy unheard of just a generation ago.
The Columbine shootings a decade ago changed everything.
When asked if Jefferson City could handle a Columbine? Cole County Sheriff Greg White answered, "I think we're still building a preparedness structure."
A former school resource officer, White was one of five expert panelists in a no-holds-barred discussion of school shootings.
“If a human being desires to damage other people, they're going to do it," said White.
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Sheriff White argued that armed civilians on campus have the potential to end the threat quickly. And he stunned the room with this assertion.
"In actual shootings, citizens do far better than law enforcement on hit potential,” said White. “They hit their targets and they don't hit other people. I wish I could say the same for cops. We train more, they do better."
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