And for our friends on the Left, what about the next time somebody goes into an elementary school armed with a Bushmaster and a couple of 9mm Glocks? You don’t want us arming the teachers or having local residents open carrying to keep the school grounds safe. “Leave it to the cops,” you say. But should the cops be going into a situation like that with nothing more than a layer of cotton uniform and a revolver to protect themselves and take down the bad guys? Or should they have to wait until a SWAT unit from an “appropriately large city” shows up, with the shooter mowing down third graders in the meantime?
Despite all that, neither the local beat cops NOR the SWAT arrived before the killing was finished and the shooter had taken his own life or walked away, out of ammo. This was true for Denver, for Tucson, Virginia Tech, Kileen, Texas, Columbine High School and a host of US Post Offices.
The citizen really is the best line of defense, and really the most likely savior of any active shooter situation.
When seconds count, the police ARE only minutes away.