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On 30 August 2010, a 62-year-old man named Thomas Richard Cowan entered Sullivan Central High School in Blountville, Tennessee, armed with two handguns and confronted the school's principal, pointing one of the weapons at her head. After a receptionist who observed the confrontation sounded an alert, a Sullivan Co. Sheriffs Deputy named Carolyn Gudger who was stationed at the school as a resource officer arrived at the scene and held Cowan at bay until more deputies arrived and shot him: Since Cowan died of his injuries, he could provide no explanation about why he showed up at Sullivan High brandishing a gun that day in August 2010. According to news accounts, by then he had a long history of unstable and threatening behavior: Every preventative claim is by nature somewhat speculative, because we can't know for sure what would have happened in the absence of intervention. But as much as one could estimate, Carolyn Gudger almost certainly saved one or more lives by her actions that day.
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