“When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”
Armed guards are good enough for the Obama daughters’ school............
“Dial 911 and die...”
Yes, placing unionized Federally funded police on fat retirements in schools is a bad idea. Teaching school personnel in armed defense (and dispelling much liberal propaganda thereby) is a good idea. Offering preferential hiring to ex-military people with combat experience to teach is a good idea.
Where I live in Washington state it would take a deputy forty-five minutes to get to our place. If he’s not busy elsewhere.
So much for active shooter response from every LEO.....
First patrolman on scene should have an EBR as a basic long gun and rush to the sound of gunfire where schools are concerned. That’s the way we trained after the columbine fiasco.
First responders not SWAT ! With regards to active shooter in a school your not trying to contain and capture the shooter your trying to SAVE children and drive the bastard away from those kids by engaging the shooter as fast as possible.
Each patrol vehicle should have a semi-auto M4gery w light and redi-mag w sling as basic issue long gun.
That said a school employee with a concealed sidearm could have distracted , disrupted his plan or killed the shooter before he conducted wholesale slaughter of children.
Left has no problem visiting a school with their own armed security detail yet do not want those children protected in same manner as they are....
Vote people.... You miss elections of ANY kind your eligible to participate in an don’t ...your part of the problem.
Vote these SOB’s back to the ice age.... Vote with your dollars between elections. Starve the beast.
My opinion ....
Liberals (e.g., gun control advocates) are willing to try anything, regardless of the expense, except something that might actually work.
When did elementary school begin at 9:30am. I seem to remember having to be at school at 8:00am.
instead of placing armed guards in locations crazy people may shoot up...
how about putting armed guards around crazy people?
No the answer is to ban high capacity magazines because after all how many ten round magazines could he go through in 11 minutes while facing children and unarmed teachers?
Honestly, it sounds like a response that was not violent or fast enough. 2.3 miles on rural roads should have taken no more than 2 minutes, then it should be cops with guns rushing straight in.
Instead, we read they saw him down a hall, and didn’t engage him because he was “too far away”. Then he went into a classroom, killed a bunch of kids, then shot himself.
A more aggressive response might have saved those last ones.
Sounds like a variation of the “wait for swat mentality”.
The cops should have attacked with the aggression that they would have if they thought their child was in that school. Nothing less.
Tooth and Claw if you are in a situation like this fight with all you got, give em hell and if you get a chance put em there. Uncle Sam taught me that!
Am I the only one that counts NINE minutes on that timeline? From when dispacth is called, until SWAT teams arrive?
Doesn’t change the point.... but, good to be accurate.
Based on my limited experience in Texas and Maryland, it takes the Police 20 to 30 minutes to respond to your call and arrive at the scene. I had an abusive drunk come into my yard. I called the Police. They arrived after he had walked out of sight down the road. They never did catch him.
Truly When seconds count the Police are minutes away.
Note: If you live in the country, there may be a jurisdiction problem between county and state police and the sheriff. You have to call around to see who will respond.
My objection to the NRA proposal is that it’s inadequate. If a lunatic like Lanza plans to bring serious weapons to a school and he knows there’s a single armed guard there, who would be his first victim, easily dispatched, before he continues on to the teachers/children?
I don’t think any such lunatic should have the first clue about how many people are or are not armed at his target location.
Sitting in church on Christmas Eve, I got to wondering what there was to stop some attention-seeking lunatic from coming in and shooting up a bunch of worshipers at Christmas Midnight Mass. Well, among other things, we’re in Virginia with concealed weapon permits. Sitting there, I had no idea how many people were carrying. Nor would any potential perp. S/he might be able to take out a large number of people, or be stopped immediately before reaching the sought body count and attendant celebrity. But at least, unlike the public schools, theaters, and locations in “gun free zones’ and certain states, we were not just sitting ducks.
we need to propose school vouchers so parents can decide where they want too send their kids..safe schools not just for the rich but middle class too.
The time line issue has been utterly suppressed by the MSM.
The government schools are now a full-blown spiritual, moral, intellectual, and PHYSICAL threat to our children.
So, the only real solution is for first graders to be in the care of their armed MOTHERS, at HOME.