Hostage situations are _always_ hard, right? Can one be absolutely certain one wouldn’t accidentally shoot some kid with a ricochet, etc...? The target(s) is/are moving, the lighting uncertain, with kids crying, noise, confusion... How do you identify the target for certain in that situation? Maybe he’s hiding behind a desk and darts out to shoot...
How do you know for sure which class room he’s in? How do you know he hasn’t moved?
I’m guessing things aren’t always as simple as they seem.
Do you want to be the one sued after a round pierces the walls/goes out a window and lodges in some bystander or someone in a nearby home? Maybe you get seriously injured or killed on top of that; maybe you’ve already been ordered to wait.
I wonder if that could be enough to discourage someone making a working man’s salary.
Interestingly enough that department did a school shooting drill at Uvalde High School, where the perp was enrolled, just last month. Source: This this morning’s Kristan T. Harris show, KGRA
I guess the drill was a rip-roaring success based on how well they comported themselves when the real thing happened...