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Just how do you think the situation in Illinois would have turned out if one of the teachers or students was armed in that auditorium yesterday?

Law enforcement authorities told ABC News that Kazmierczak, bought most of his arsenal — a 12 gauge shotgun, .22 pistol and a .9 mm pistol — at a gun store in Champaign, Ill., on Saturday, indicating that he had planned the assault on the school for at least five days.

A .45 Glock semi-automatic handgun was also found on the scene and linked to him.

What changes would there be in the death toll if while this coward was reloading his weapon one of the students stood up with his own .45 and sent him to the afterlife earlier than he wanted? 

Witnesses said the skinny gunman, dressed in black and wearing a stocking cap, emerged from behind a screen on the stage of 200-seat Cole Hall and opened fire just as the class was about to end around 3 p.m.

Officials said 162 students were registered for the class but it was unknown how many were there Thursday.

Lauren Carr said she was sitting in the third row when she saw the shooter walk through a door on the right-hand side of the stage, pointing a gun straight ahead.

“I personally Army-crawled halfway up the aisle,” said Carr, a 20-year-old sophomore. “I said I could get up and run or I could die here.”

She said a student in front of her was bleeding, “but he just kept running.”

“I heard this girl scream, ‘Run, he’s reloading the gun.’ “

Or how about an armed teacher on the podium who could have turned around and defended himself and his students?

An eyewitness told ABC News’ Eileen Murphy that the shooter was a white male, about 5’9″, wearing a black beanie and a black coat, who had an ebony shotgun. He came in through the teacher’s podium area and opened fire on 100 to 120 people who were attending the class.

Geraldo on Fox N Friends this morning said, “More police!!”.  

How about more armed citizens?

• Quotes from Fox News.com and ABC News.com