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Obama was so tough on Russia!

 

This guy's job was to go into that building.

He also wasn't some rent-a-cop making $15.00 an hour. He was a member of the Broward County Sheriff's department, assigned to the school full time.

And, I'm not sure why, in a circumstance where the armed cop didn't respond, that's supposed to an argument for insisting that every other adult on the campus must be unarmed.

If only cops are armed, but we can't count on the cops to respond when needed, then the argument that only cops should be armed falls apart.

Since the Columbine school shooting that left 12 dead in 1999, cops have been trained not to wait for heavily armed SWAT officers but to enter buildings to find and kill the threat.

“When we train police, the first priority is to stop the killing,” said Pete Blair, the executive director of the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University.

Said former Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti: “These events are over in three to five minutes. You don’t have the luxury to wait. You might not have the best equipment, you might have small numbers, but you’re armed. Those kids are not armed. You have to go in and engage the shooter. Our job is to protect and serve.”

Parkland school cop ‘never went in’ during the shooting. There were other failures, too.

 

Hmm.

 

Are you a crisis actor?

 

He's good at posting links to Twitter, too.

 

Because no one is proposing to "arm" teachers. We're not expecting Ms. Crabapple, the 60-year-old kindergarten teacher, to start packing heat.

But, if the football coach, or the history teacher, has a concealed carry permit, I'm not sure why it's such a bad idea if they're allowed to carry on campus.

And, again, no one is even suggesting that a teacher, who is armed, is responsible for "tracking down a shooter loose in the building."

Of course their priority would be to protect the students in their charge; to get them sheltered in a locked classroom, or whatever their security procedure calls for.

But, if cornered, if "flight" is not an option, and "fight" is the only recourse, would the teacher having a gun be a bad thing?

And, let's remember, the unarmed football coach, who was trained as a security guard, did rush towards the killer, and was murdered. Are we really going to argue that it was better that he did not have a firearm? That was the preferred option?

 

Yesterday...

 

Peak YF.

*Slow clap begins*

 

Today...

 

The 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, where I imagine there are lots of trained people with lots of guns, still claimed 13 lives.

 

The shooting didn't go on for over four minutes.