I don't agree.
There is a good reason all police officers are automatically suspended from duty when they have used lethal weapons.And they are supposedly in continuous training to respond appropriately!
As a student,I watched an armed school security guard lock school doors and watch, while I and another female student were brutally beaten and kicked by six male students.
We two Caucasian female students were “blamed” for the ensuing riot...Oh the joys of forced racial integration!...but even then, there were no deaths involved.
In this Sandy Hook School massacre, having sifted through and found the actual facts from hundreds of “reports”, it appears the maniac shot his way through the entry, and in a very short time period, murdered his pre-planned targets, before killing himself.
All the school teachers who locked down their classrooms, hid the children, and/or otherwise followed emergency procedures instead of confronting the crazed shooter,saved the rest of those children by denying him additional targets.
The shooter was active for less than five minutes.
Closer to two minutes.
I am certain it felt like an eternity for all those who were there, but it was not something an armed teacher in a locked down classroom could do anything about, if his/her primary responsibility was to protect the children under his/her care.
,I.I’m VERY serious in my belief that the teachers need to be trained and carry all the time.”
I don’t agree.,/I. ,P.
if the perp in this case had known that every teacher, custodian, counselor, nurse, etc. in this school was armed...he never would have inveded in the first place.
we have a supply of nuclear weapons so that no one will use them against us....works well so far.