4 ARMED DEPUTIES DID NOT ENTER SCHOOL - not one as reported
That there was one COWARD at the Parkland school shooting was bad enough, and could possibly be explained for failing to act due to being alone....
HOWEVER, now it is being reported that FOUR of the Broward County Sheriffs department officers hid outside while the carnage continued unabated inside. It was the responding officers from Coral Springs that acted as they should have and entered the building and RAN TO THE SOUND of gunfire.
And all of the anti-gun crowd ask us to disarm and depend on the police to protect us. NO THANK YOU.
As is proved time and again;
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/02/24/florida-school-shooting-huge-mistakes-kaye-dnt-ac.cnn
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This wasn't a gun problem, this was a system of laws and rules in place run by PEOPLE...... that failed EVERYONE.
Four deputies that were presumably trained to handle such situations.
If these highly trained individuals were unable to properly react to this school shooting, how would comparatively less trained armed teachers be expected to react in a better way?
I agree for several reasons. First and foremost shooting at a target is quite different than shooting at a moving target that is returning fire. Second, shooting at an inanimate object is different than shooting at another human being. This is why we train people to perform this duty. They are also tested to see if they are capable. It takes a trained mindset to be able to shoot at another person not just a trained trigger finger.
We need to find another way. I think what is being missed here is that in an effort to protect this false narrative that someone is trying to take people's 2nd amendment rights away, those demanding more and more guns will eventually throw the whole country into a military state where we have armed guards everywhere. More Americans need to travel abroad and really see how those type of countries are run.
No, that's my point. We are slowing moving the country towards a military state in order to control and combat the endless mass shooters. As is evident further by the police officers not entering the school for reasons we could hold a separate debate. The seed has been planted.......local police are not capable of addressing or handling these situations so the government has to come in and take charge.
Citizens need to stop and think about where this is leading.
You keep making this personal in the sense that you think every gun owner has your ability to assess the situation and act appropriately on that assessment. I don't know your personal identifiable information so I don't want to make assumptions. I will say that most of us grow and mature based on our life experiences. To say an 18 year old has the same maturity to handle a firearm as someone who is 5 years older would be misguided. We have to address the situation based on averages because there are just far too many variables involved to accommodate us individually.
Yes, I agree there are some countries in which the citizens aren't permitted to own guns but you're leaving out the other countries and regions that the citizens do have guns and they are generally a hot bed of violence.
Throw out the po po since their job requires they carry and use their guns. For this exercise I'm not interested in cop involved shootings.
I think in order to really get an accurate picture of civilians, you'll need to break it down by type of firearm used to conduct those murders. Then break it down further to identify the provocation of the murder, e.g. revenge, crime, mental illness.
Yes, 1st person is duly noted and I agree.
Another big issue is whether we want any teacher to have that relationship to children. Teachers should be a safe harbor for all kids, not someone who might shoot them accidentally or otherwise. That's why SROs exist so that teachers don't have that burden or that potentially adversarial relationship with kids.
Gun control is a suicide pact if cops can't be relied on to do their job.
The whole argument for gun control is that citizens don't need their own guns because the police will protect us. But if the police act like the Broward County Sheriffs, it's clear they have no real interest in intervening until it's safe.
Those poor southern cops got confused when a bunch of white kids were running towards them with their hands up.
That was a load of ignorant stereotypes. Feel better?
And it was also racist.
I suppose this blows the Good Guy with a gun negating the Bad Guy with a gun theory out of the water.
N who said they always finish last...
I think some parents might bring civil lawsuits against the police dept. I sure would.
Agreed.
With all the article that have been posted regarding the shooting the only thing that remains a fact is 17 dead kids and teachers.
If our children can't be safe even with ''good guys'' with guys what is the answer. Arming teachers, what makes us think that they will be the ''good guys'' or are we going to have to send dad's and mom's to school, armed, with their kids, to spend the day with them to be sure that they are safe.
I sure as hell don't know the answer, I wish that I did.