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Scarborough Justifies: Parkland Deputy Didn't Go in Because he Was "Overmatched"
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Posted on 02/23/2018 5:03:29 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Joe Scarborough said he wasn't justifying the failure of the Parkland deputy to enter the school during the shooting. But that's exactly what Scarborough did.

On Morning Joe, Scarborough said:

"There actually was a 'good guy with a gun,' as the President and every NRA member will say. There was a good guy with a gun at a school. There was a law enforcement officer with a gun at the school. And he didn't go in. In part, I am sure, because he was overmatched. Now, that's no justification."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: belongsinbloggers; chat; clickbait; goodguywithgun; guncontrol; joescarborough; notnews; parklandshooting
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To: COBOL2Java

How I love that show!


21 posted on 02/23/2018 5:25:47 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
From the dead intern to the beast's father with Osama,
there is nothing to trust on that show or network, is there?


22 posted on 02/23/2018 5:26:21 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What BS. The standard procedure would be to draw the fire away from the kids. It wouldn’t be to commit suicide, but to distract the shooter enough until backup arrived. He didn’t do that. I am not qualified to judge him in any way, but neither is Joe Scarborough. It appears he decided to stay completely out of the way. That is not how most Law Enforcement would have handled it. On the other hand, if several of the Teachers had of been located around such a large campus, they would have been able to kill/distract the shooter so reinforcements could arrive in time. A fair, close examination of the situation must occur.


23 posted on 02/23/2018 5:29:32 AM PST by richardtavor
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Well, if he didn’t go in, he wasn’t a good guy with a gun. He was just a guy.


24 posted on 02/23/2018 5:29:54 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: weston
He didn't go in because he is a COWARD.

A bullet from a handgun or a rifle is equal because of mass and its velocity. Velocity impacting flesh is the equalizer, not so much the firearm used once both are at or above an adequate and effective caliber.

25 posted on 02/23/2018 5:30:32 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: A_perfect_lady

Exactly.


26 posted on 02/23/2018 5:31:33 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: chris37

Audie Murphy, Joe. Ever heard of him.


27 posted on 02/23/2018 5:31:58 AM PST by taterjay
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Why was the officer over matched? Did the officer not have a high powered semi automatic pistol with multiple magazines of ammunition? Was he not sufficiently trained in firearm combat techniques? He could take on a 19 year old mental person? When others lives were at stake?


28 posted on 02/23/2018 5:33:51 AM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: taterjay

Did Slo Joe take time away from RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA to whine about guns?


29 posted on 02/23/2018 5:35:49 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sorry, but I think he is a pussy.


30 posted on 02/23/2018 5:36:22 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

LOL- 321 members of the FDNY had no chance against the World Trace Center buildings on 9-11 yet heroically charged in trying to save as many people as possible...liberals are pathetic...


31 posted on 02/23/2018 5:37:37 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Return fire changes the order of battle. Who knows what could have happened.


32 posted on 02/23/2018 5:39:12 AM PST by databoss
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To: indthkr

He had a salary structure of $75,000 a year....with overtime counted, I think he was over $100,000 a year.

I think they need to review the terms of titles, and refuse to call people in his line of work ‘officers’ or ‘police’. I wouldn’t even use the word ‘security’. He was basically a social-worker in a police uniform.


33 posted on 02/23/2018 5:39:20 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: God luvs America

Joe did mention those brave FDNY members.

But while Joe claimed he wasn’t justifying the deputy’s failure, he clearly was. And he made his motive in doing so obvious: to defeat the “good guy with a gun” argument.


34 posted on 02/23/2018 5:40:13 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Morning Joe and Mourning Ho backing the “good guy” for not doing his job as “overmatched”. Well, mentally, there’s no doubt about that.


35 posted on 02/23/2018 5:42:35 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Morning Joke is one of the stupidest people ever to have his or her own TV show, and there are legions of such stupid people.


36 posted on 02/23/2018 5:43:09 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Spok
This is how the liberals want it-only cops are armed, and the cops were as effective as gun control would have been. And the kids pay the price.

Shades of Columbine.

37 posted on 02/23/2018 5:44:14 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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To: JudgemAll

“A parent would have not felt “overmatched” but “empowered”. The point is we cannot rely on any government bureaucrat.”

That’s a fact, friend.


38 posted on 02/23/2018 5:45:12 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: weston

EXACTLY!!!!


39 posted on 02/23/2018 5:47:04 AM PST by bantam
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To: databoss

“Return fire changes the order of battle. Who knows what could have happened.”

Well, it certainly alters the equation. But Morning Joke wouldn’t know that.


40 posted on 02/23/2018 5:49:54 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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