Yeah, I read it. I think it is BS.
It is also BS when people like Trump claim that they would have done better.
We know who would have acted. There is plenty of history and plenty of evidence.
Mothers, not chickenhawks.
@roycroftmom To be fair and accurate, the firearm used most often in school shootings is in fact a handgun.
I looked at the 208 “school shooting incidents” that occurred between 2000-2018. This is a very loosely defined list. It includes gang fights on school grounds and even a target shooter that had a bullet miss the target and hit a child on a school palyground.
There were only 10 shootings that involved a rifle.
“It is also BS when people like Trump claim that they would have done better.”
Well, I’ll agree with you on that. 
W need the tapes to see what really happened. Sure he may have thought one thing at first, but I am sure 911 and the radios lit up with all kind of info.
But wasn’t this over the course of just a few minutes, where he was making calls and trying to give information and figure it out? I guess we’ll have to wait and see what version of the truth is correct.
Though like usual, people want to put blame on a police officer, without knowing all the facts. What else is new.
@Consolation – I agree with everything you say! Couldn’t have said it better.
@“Cardinal Fang”
Agree 100%. Name-calling is a distraction to what hopefully is the main goal of looking for lessons to be learned. At the end of the day we all the same thing - for our kids to be safe. Or least safer.
I’ll admit that I’m guilty of tending toward a knee jerk impulse to fault the police. But in this case it appears he’s been scapegoated before enough of the facts are out to come to any conclusions.
I’m all for a “well regulated militia”, but…
Oh, come on. The conventional stance these days is to kowtow to the military and police and blame the educators.
Well the sheriff, his boss, threw him under the bus first. So I’m not sure what else there is to react to.
Every single damn time a police officer panics and shoots an unarmed black male (or an armed black male like Philando Castile who is legally allowed to carry a concealed weapon and who does nothing threatening) the same damn chorus comes out. “He has to think of his own safety.”
For example, Officer Betty Jo Shelby shot an Terence Crutcher, unarmed black. We’re trained to stop a threat, and by all indications, he was a threat." He wasn’t a threat. Of course, Crutcher escaped any legal punishment.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/us/tulsa-police-shooting-trial/index.html
We must be living in different universes.
You never had a boss who was eager to sacrifice others before the truth came out, in order to save face for himself? Not the sign of a good leader, but someone who is anxious to cover their own butt.
Well it didn’t work. It seems people are blaming him and are looking for him to resign too.
I just think he panicked. I don’t believe he thought shots were on the outside. I think he has had over week to see the backlash so he formulated that response. Now I could be wrong but I just don’t believe him.
^That’s certainly a possibility but, on the other hand, he might have performed exactly according to protocol. Neither would surprise me, but it bothers me that some seek to scapegoat him, hoping the deflection will derail the real debate.
I’m hesitant to pass judgment without an investigation, but it doesnt look good. It might make sense for police officers to wait for backup, in say a bank robbery, where the assumption is the situation can still be resolved without loss of life or serious injury. In an active shooter situation, I do expect the police to rush in. Nor should we attribute magical powers to an AR-15. Even if the shooter has an AR-15, it doesn’t mean he can hit the broad side of a barn.
Perhaps you should read this month’s Atlantic magazine, which has the account of a Parkland hospital doctor who treated the casualties. That gun is intended to inflict the maximum amount of damage on the human body by shredding organs at a very rapid rate. He discusses the futility of treating those shot and his frustration.
Deputies union head is disputing Peterson’s claim
It’s hard to believe anyone took it as “firecracker.” Maybe if it were a handgun. I would have thought an automatic weapon sounded different not that I ever heard it except in movies. The coach heard it and ran to it. He clearly didn’t think it was a firecracker.
Israel should go, too, imo. There were 45 calls to the sheriff office about Cruz according to the news this morning.
@roycroftmom I read that article and it brought me to tears.