Principal Hailed As Hero For Taking Down Gunman

[The Straight Story]

Principal Hailed As Hero For Taking Down Gunman

POSTED: 12:46 pm EST January 27, 2006
UPDATED: 3:21 pm EST January 27, 2006



SAN ANTONIO -- The principal of Rayburn Elementary School tackled a gunman who was threatening her students and teachers Wednesday afternoon.

Shannon Allen, 31, a former Jourdanton High School athlete, said she just did what anyone else would have done.

On Wednesday afternoon, a man entered the school's front door and made his way to the library, where school staff members directed him to the main office.

Once in the office, he told Allen he had a gun. She persuaded him to toss the gun into a nearby trashcan, and then tried to talk to the distraught man.

http://www.local6.com/education/6499278/detail.html

[Lefty48197]

1. Why didn't she just pull out her own gun and shoot him?

The NRA told me that the only way to protect yourself from armed criminals was to carry your own gun. Apparently, it's just too much trouble to keep the guns away from the criminals.

[MrBenchley]

2. For that matter

why wasn't he terrified that one of the kids had brought a gun to school?