So no short term solutions forthcoming?

If someone enters a school and starts to fire, how can he be stopped?

Any ideas?

There are any amount of long term solutions, but how can an active shooter be stopped?

Don't strain your brains.

Issy, why wont you take my suggestion of a mobile armed militia of pensioners in 'Mr Whippy' vans seriously? At last count there were over 10,000 ideal assorted ice cream vans in Australia. There are thousands of geriatric pensioners ready to answer the call, to take up arms in the name of truth, justice and the American way! It brings a tear to my eye.

To think I have a better instant solution to the daily mass killings in Aussie, than both you and The Donald, and you wont take me seriously. I am dis-custard!

Here is your very own armed, personnel vehicle ready to go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vMjddmK0w

Got you by the short and curlies, Paul.

You're the one who brought up the shooting in Miami, don't try so desperately to change the goal posts.

How would you recommend stopping a shooter in a US school?

Beg?
Plead?
or shoot?

Australian chapter Yank NRA: "There are any amount of long term solutions, but how can an active shooter be stopped?"

Don't let the mongrel have a gun in the first place.

Then there's no active shooter.

Duh!

John Howard couldn't stop Martin Bryant with a short term solution but he did stop the gun freaks lining more of us up for death.

Our short term, immediate interest in Australia is to defend and consolidate our current gun laws and where opportunities present themselves make them more draconian.

That could include a permanently updated and universally available register that "outs" the enemies who lurk among us.

Eminently do-able.

//So no short term solutions forthcoming?//

Oh, I say, this is a jolly good wheeze, eh lads?

First of all you force him to drop the gun! Next, you eat the gun, thus disarming him! You have now rendered him 'elpless!

Alternatively, just pull a lever and drop a 16 ton weight on his head. I learnt that in Malaya.

If either these methods should fail, simply release the tiger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90dnUbZMmM

If any of these methods should fail a Cordolaine signal can be used to excite the copper in bullets, causing them to expand in the gun barrel, rendering Earth-made firearms useless.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Cordolaine

So there you go, Is Mise. Four sensible and practical solutions to the epidemic of Australian school shootings. And they're all completely serious and not jokes at all, just like your totally serious ;) suggestion to arm teachers. Which is definitely a very practical and reasonable idea, and not just the most ridiculous suggestion you could find in order to best wind up Paul ;)

And here's another totally serious suggestion: why should teachers be the only profession to be able to defend themselves from people armed with fresh fruit? Why don't we give guns to burger flippers and checkout chicks and tour guides and nurses and work-for-the-dole people and, well, anybody with a job? Because once everybody has a gun, nobody will shoot each other anymore. That's how it works. And because all jobs will involve having a gun, there won't be any more need for those specialist professions where the employees are armed - rent-a-cops, cops and military will all become redundant. So that'll be a hefty saving in public expenditure.

Nice to see people making fun of the dead, Toni.

Trump's solution is being lambasted in the media but no one is offering an alternative short term solution.

Can it be that there isn't one?

Emperor,

Bereft of useful ideas as usual.

How do you stop an armed man, intent on slaughter?

Don't strain the brain.