Posted on 05/26/2022 10:30:37 AM PDT by lowbridge
Hardcore opponents of gun control in the U.S. often respond to school shootings by proposing to arm teachers or add armed security guards to schools. But the inability of police to stop the gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, before he killed at least 19 children and two teachers Tuesday exposes the poor reasoning behind that proposal.
While all the details of the shooting are not yet clear, authorities’ accounts revealed that the gunman was confronted by multiple armed police officers — yet they were unable to stop him before he killed nearly two dozen people.
The gunman reportedly crashed his truck in a ditch near the campus before entering the school, and police officers arrived at the school after a report of that crash.
According to CBS News’ summary of Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Christopher Olivarez’s account, the shooter “stormed Robb Elementary School in the small city of Uvalde shortly after crashing his car in the area and immediately engaged in gunfire with state troopers on the scene. The gunman shot several police officers and then locked himself in a classroom.”
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According to various reports, after local officers called for backup, a specialized tactical unit made it into the classroom a full hour after the gunman entered the school, and an agent of an elite law enforcement unit was involved in killing the gunman. (That agent was injured in the process.)
Given those details, I find it increasingly impossible to understand how one could believe that the solution to school shootings is arming teachers or having a security guard protecting every school. If a group of police officers couldn’t stop a shooter, then why would we expect an individual teacher or security guard to do better?
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Bingo!
Like this turd would ever admit the evil Yehudim would ever have a good idea.
Probably why she opposed the idea, in the first place.
Makes it harder to kill infidels.
44% of all mass school killings are by homosexuals.
They make up 3% of the population.
So it took an hour for an armed asset to reach the gunman. And were to suppose if there were armed assets IN the building alrea, trained to act , things might have not went better? This is what passes for analysis these days.
BS. Is not futile.
The point about armed teachers is that they are a deterrence from a gunman even thinking about attacking a school. They know that it will take the police time to respond, so they have a killing window in which no one, not even teachers are armed.
The moron who penned this piece cannot understand that he teacher in that classroom was inside and could have taken this bastard out fast before all the killing.
Cops couldn’t stop him because he went inside and locked the class door. An armed teacher in the room could have taken him out.
Exactly right! Teachers SHOULD be armed, principals/secretaries and the like. The gun free zones are where these psycho’s blow everything away!!!
Pics Are good.
Defended themselves. And the kids.
The armed guards in the schools and at the doorways to stores in Israel are expected to die before letting a terrorist in. Even if it means tackling a suicide bomber. That is the ethos.
Geez man... its an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. There’s no shop class. The principal is likely a female, and so is the gym teacher. And you expect these people, with no armor whatsoever, to run TOWARDS the fire when the cops won’t even do it?
This POS communist moron gets the “stupid is as stupid does” award for 2022...
So, a school where the teachers / staff were *not* armed is proof that arming the teachers and staff would be futile?
What an amazingly stupid article.
Oh Bullshit. If the teacher had a gun it would have made no difference. Some poor 25 year old teacher would have drawn her gun and taken out this guy with all his body armor? you’re living in a fantasy world.
Well, I'd probably start with training them how to lock doors.
So now you’re blaming the teachers. You are an idiot with not a clue about what you’re talking about.
Because it’s their lives that are threatened, too, not just the kids.
And they are not being ordered to stand down.
That has to rate as one of the all time stupidest questions going.
It’s not that the police COULDN’T stop the shooter. It’s that they didn’t.
One good thing
Local Leo won’t be much threat to determined civilians push comes to shove
Govt forces and assets another matter
Just saw a news report saying now he encountered no police and went straight into an unlocked door to enter the school.
Is it about “blame” or just stating the facts? Apparently the school doors were unlocked, as well as the door to the classroom. That is basic stuff to secure the school that was not done.
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