Good idea! They can even have two different Shooting Survivor armbands to choose from, the regular, or the deluxe version.
Posted on 03/04/2018 6:13:50 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A high school student who survived the deadly Florida shooting on Valentine’s Day that left 17 people dead has slammed his teacher on social media, calling him an “opportunist” and “a coward,” after he allegedly wouldn’t unlock his classroom door and let students in, a report from the Sun-Sentinel said on Friday.
Josh Gallagher, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., shared his account on Twitter. He said he was in math class with his teacher Jim Gard when the fire alarm went off. Students began to evacuate, and while Gallagher was near the stairwell, he said they heard shots being fired.
Kids started to retreat back toward their classroom, Gallagher said, only to find a locked door.
Gallagher, along with more than a dozen other students, was “left in the hallways ducking as the screams of classmates and gunshots took over the noise around me,” he tweeted. “We were stuck in the hall for 4 total minutes ducking and in fear for our lives.”
While Gallagher was on the phone with his dad, who he said is a first responder, another teacher who he’d “never seen before” allowed the group of kids to come inside.
After the shooting, Gallagher said he learned that his teacher allegedly “ran back into the classroom without turning around and locked his door.”
“He left 75% of his students out in the hallway to be slaughtered,” the student claimed in the post.
Gallagher goes on accuse his teacher of being an “opportunist” and someone who shouldn’t be seen “as close to a hero.”
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We’ve gone from “MM Mmmm Mmmm suck the president’s PP and worship the air he breathes” to “F*** the president” in just one “generation”.
The students are being indoctrinated by Communist “Democrats” in the schools.
> The teacher was only following protocol. <
Probably. I want to think I’d try to keep that door open as long as possible. But this situation is a bit like a ship that has just been torpedoed. Or a ship that has just collided with an iceberg. There are people in the flooding compartments, desperately trying to get out.
Should the captain order the water-tight doors closed? If so, when? It all depends on the specific situation, of course. But it’s a hell of a decision to have to make.
>>Why didn’t some of these brave snow flakes charge the damn shooter and throw him to the ground?
Didn’t someone headed into a ROTC program give up his life guarding others that day?
Keep in mind that this is Broward County, not exactly one of America's shining examples of freedom. Obama did do damage, of course, but Broward was damaged long before Obama arrived on the scene.
I saw that episode about a week ago. Very good at showing how people turn on each other.
Probably following union rules.
Congress should pass a law designating the kids as "Shooting Survivors," and have them wear special armbands to remind the general public that they are "Shooting Survivors."
Because "Shooting Survivors" is such a long word, they should simply wear armbands with the initials "SS" on them. David Hogg can be the leader of the SS.
Lumper, aside from plain fear, there's a relatively simple answer, IMHO, for that question:
Because, since the time they were little kids they've been conditioned not to fight back, not to defend themselves, not to be "confrontational", had mandatory "conflict resolution" courses and all sorts of liberal bullsh*t indoctrination aimed at making sure no one gets offended.... need I go on?
They've been taught to lock down, shelter in place, and wait for the police. Except in this case, the police were too busy peeing down their own legs outside to do the ONE job they're supposed to do - "Serve and protect".
Besides, charging a guy wielding a gun is not something most people would do anyway - especially when unarmed. I suppose it would be a different story if someone or others was able to return fire and keep the bastard's head down, to allow others to work around behind him (IF they even could in the narrow confines) and THEN take him out, but that just wasn't the case.
I don't blame the kids at all. The immediate fault lies completely with the "resource officer" and Broward deputies who cowered outside while this psychopath was allowed to roam and shoot.
The next larger picture is the system which allows these stupid "Gun Free Zones" and the rest of us who just sit by and allow it to BE that way.
The 30,000 foot view above that is the fact that this kid was KNOWN psychopath, who SHOULD have been put into the No-Buy NICS list immediately after being expelled for making terroristic threats and +45 LEO visits to his home for domestic violence. NOT ONE ALPHABET AGENCY DID IT'S JOB, and that fact and that fact ALONE allowed this little asshole to buy firearms.
We have to send our kids to these places by law, and they're defenseless there, by law.
The local cops responded quickly, and described it as "blowing past the Broward deputies outside".
Those local LEOs deserve all of the credit for response and for their bravery.
The Broward personnel that failed these kids and their little fascist wannabe Sheriff - you know, the guy who quotes Game of Thrones saying "the lion doesn't care about the opinions of sheep" - need to be removed from any position of authority ASAP.
And the ONLY thing that needs to be fixed regarding "gun control" is that the assholes who are in charge of doing a job actually DO THEIR JOB when it comes to making sure people like this aren't able to legally buy a firearm.
Look at it this way. What if the teacher had open the door and Cruz had been standing there?
You can curse and swear all you want to about an issue on which you are ignorant, but experts who know better have agreed it is the safest thing to do.
***”Lord Of The Flies” territory. ***
I saw that old movie the other night. Thought of the Parkland kids all through it.
I’m with you. I’m a teacher, and I’d have been standing at the door frantically shoving kids back into the room, at least, I hope and expect that’s what I’d do.
The other reason they never try to disarm the gunman is that they are terrified of guns, and once a gun is in someone’s hands, that whole person becomes a huge gun, in their minds. So when he stops to reload, they just cringe and cower, because to them, the gun is magic, and he who holds it becomes as powerful as they think that gun is, even when the gun is temporarily unusable. That’s my theory, anyway.
closing the door on your class is the best thing to do? Right...............
From all that has been revealed, it appears that they never had "shooter drills" down in Broward County. The Broward Coward Sherriff Israel and his band of so-called Deputies apparently didn't know (or care) that seconds count, and the teachers, staff and students didn't really know how to react.
As a result of this shooting, high schools in my area are having active shooter drills. You'd think they'd be welcomed by parents, but at least one has been loud (and obnoxious) in opposition because she is afraid her snowflake will be too traumatized by the drill, never mind about the trauma of an actual situation.
You’re not wrong, for sure.
“Learned” fear is powerful.
They were outside the class as there was a fire alarm going off. Which we now know was a diversion Cruz used to get the students out so he could begin shooting. The fact is we may never know if the teacher was a coward or a hero.
Could he have let more students in? Possibly. Could he have opened the door to Cruz himself? Also possibly.
Brilliant plan in local schools is that all doors must be locked at all times. So fire alarm, folks file out of room, close door. Oh it’s an active shooter, please stop shooting while teacher unlocks door ...
The teacher was only following protocol. Not opening the door is the command.
If you are in another building/another floor, then, of course you let kids in your room or, if possible, flee the building for (hopefully) safety. Because of the rural nature of the school, help is not going to arrive for a while—it up to us to use our wits and whatever’s at hand to survive. (On the other hand if “help” is just going to wait outside and see how things are going...)
I have no idea what the drill for the Florida school was and how the teacher in question acted. If the shooter was nearby or coming in his direction, he may well have done the right thing. Were kids in the hall in question shot?
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