[Uncle Miltie]

This is not a failure due to the availability of guns.

This is a multi-layered failure of GOVERNMENT to do its job.

[lightman]

The primary purpose of Government is to defend its citizens against all enemies, foreign or domestic.

When Government itself becomes the enemy it is the right of the people “to alter or to abolish it.”

—Philadelphia, 1776

[keats5]

Then there was a 20-minute delay on the security cameras. When the cops thought they were monitoring the suspect inside the building, he was finished with the killings and had left the building.

This whole thing makes me sick.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/23/florida-schools-security-cameras-were-rewound-20-minutes-causing-lag-in-capturing-gunman-officials-say.html

[Thibodeaux]

The deputies were shouting in unison “Kumbaya, kumbaya, kumbaya” as they were trained to do in such a situation.

A no shoot resolution is the favored path rather than committing gun violence. After all American leftists have no original thought and although the deputies carry guns, they follow the rule of UK constables and never use them.