Colion Noir questions school response plans after Bend shooting
His commentary connects an armed father's intervention with earlier security drills, arguing that immediate access matters even when police respond quickly.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,823,142 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (125,573).
A School Shooter Got Inside… Then An Armed Dad Did The Unthinkable
Things we can learn from the video
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- 0:24News footage reports the Bend school shooting and Kaylub Giamanco's armed intervention.
- 2:10Noir credits the fast police response but emphasizes the time before officers arrived.
- 3:45An earlier classroom-door experiment compares standard hardware with a reinforced lock.
- 5:37A previous simulation illustrates the delay involved in retrieving a firearm stored in an administrative office.
- 7:23Noir argues against school-district concealed-carry bans, emphasizing intervention by someone already present.
Colion Noir returns to his earlier school-security experiments to examine the gap between a fast police response and help already on campus. His starting point is the reported intervention of Kaylub Giamanco, an armed father who stopped an attacker at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon.
News footage included in the video reports that three children and a teacher were killed. Noir says police arrived in about three minutes, and explicitly credits their speed. His argument concerns what happened before they could get there.
"The attacker decides when the event begins. Everyone else begins behind the clock," he says.
The video has drawn an unusually large audience for his channel: an estimated 1.8 million views in its first day, more than fourteen times his usual opening for regular videos.
Rather than staying with the news footage, Noir revisits a classroom-door test comparing standard hardware with a reinforced lock. He also shows an earlier simulation in which retrieving a firearm from a locked administrative office introduced a delay. He uses both to argue that barriers and response plans need to account for the time before assistance arrives.
This is gun-rights commentary, and the video is sponsored by ammunition manufacturer Nosler. Noir's policy conclusion is direct: he criticizes school-district concealed-carry bans and argues that an armed person already present can intervene before responding officers reach the scene.
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- Channel
- Colion Noir
- Subscribers
- 3,400,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 7,147,926
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,025,610 (on a normal day: 838,877)
- Video published
- October 16, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,125,443 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,659,569
The numbers
The video's first-day views were far above Colion Noir's usual start for regular uploads. Its comment count also rose sharply.



