There you have it.
This is why we have the 2nd amendment because, when push comes to shove, the police aren’t there to protect you. They’re doing a good job if they make a phone call.
If the JROTC in that school had actual rifles on school property (like the JROTC of old did) this wouldn’t have happened.
If he set up a perimeter, how did the shooter get away? Not much of a perimeter.
Scott Peterson? Really?
When seconds count, a cop willing to do his job is only tens-of-minutes away......
I guess he did as good a job as the rest of the authorities who watched this on a 20 minute tape delay. Talk about the Keystone cops.
This Peterson fellow needs to just stop talking, period.
Clearly the cop was a liberal who votes for demo_rats. Liberals are horrible people.
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Deputy Scot Peterson.
The Coward From Broward.
Gets to retire in his 50’s with a pension over $60,000 a year.
What a hero.
Yup - a real hero /sarcasm
Anyone could have done that.
We have so deteriorated in our society that when people do simply what is expected of them, they think they deserve some sort of recognition for their effort.
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Your kids are just so safe in public schools.
Called in the shooter’s location and description, so some cops just like him could go neutralize him. As for containment, he obviously wasn’t close enough to see the bad guy drop his rifle and walk out the door.
“Deputy who didn’t stop Florida shooting thinks he ‘did a good job’”
If he thinks his job is to go home safe at any cost he did a good job.
Don't forget, though, that the FBI had a chance to stop this before it started.
Twice.
And the local police did too.
Numerous times.
But the Deputy's under the bus all alone?
It sounds like he was a security “monitor”.
The armed officer was not at the site when the firing started.
He had to travel to the building, find out where the shooter was, and confront the possibility there was more than one shooter.
He likely had a firearm holding about ten shots. The shooter could easily pick him off at a distance, It would have been a lot harder for him to hit the shooter vs the shooter hitting him.
Add to this the location of the shooter in relation to where the officer entered the building. He may have been at one entrance hoping he would exit there, but the suspect left via an alternate route.
We don’t know what the hallways were like, how many kids still on campus and in the background of many possible shot scenarios.
Folks, we weren’t there.
Everyone down there is covering their ass. The police are. The school officials are. The public placement agency is. Counseling services are. The courts likely are.
So some of these entities are now trash-talking the officer on site. Who could have seen this coming.
To my way of thinking, there’s a whole hell of a lot of talking and insulting going on my folks who should be too embarrassed to open their mouths at all on the topic.
This officer may or may not have been able to do anything.
I have seen several people touch on the fact some folks sacrificed their lives. Yes they did. They were caught in the situation and would have likely died no matter what, and they tried to make a difference.
This officer was not caught with no escape route, and he is not required to walk into a situation where he may not be able to affect a solution to the problem.
Suicide is not a job requirement, and well meaning attempts to take down the perp may in fact result in other deaths that may not have taken place.
If this guy tried to enter the crime scene and get the drop on this guy, the guy could have fired more shots at him, and hit other students so more than 17 would have died.
We cannot know all the loose ends here, and it gets really tiresome watching some arm chair quarterbacks act as if they can.
The stampeded to denigrate this guy reveals people to be extremely ignorant.