Politics Florida school shooting: Armed officer 'did not confront killer'

An armed officer assigned to the Florida school where a gunman killed 17 people last week stood outside the building during the shooting and did not intervene, the local sheriff says.

Deputy Scot Peterson has resigned after being suspended, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said.

"I am devastated. Sick to my stomach. He never went in," Sheriff Israel said.

Earlier this week President Trump said arming school teachers could prevent school shootings.

The proposal has long been championed by the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) gun lobby.

On Thursday, in the NRA's first comments since the massacre, its head accused Democrats and media of "exploiting" the attack. Wayne LaPierre said "opportunists" were using the tragedy to expand gun control and abolish US gun rights.

 

Fla. school officer waited outside building for 4 minutes as killings happened, sheriff says

http://abcnews.go.com/US/fla-school...g-minutes-killings-happened/story?id=53288339

 

Stoneman Douglas cop resigns; sheriff says he should have 'killed the killer'

The police officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resigned Thursday, under investigation for failing to enter the building as a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people.

Sheriff Scott Israel said Deputy Scot Peterson should have “went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer.” Video footage showed Peterson did none of that, Israel said.

The sheriff’s office also said Thursday that two deputies were put under investigation for how they handled potential warnings about Cruz, including one from November in which a caller said Nikolas Cruz “could be a school shooter in the making.”

Peterson, 54, came under scrutiny after 19-year-old Cruz entered a school building with an AR-15 rifle and killed 14 students and three educators on Valentine’s Day. Cruz later confessed, police said.

The sheriff said video shows Peterson was outside the building for “upwards of four minutes” while students were gunned down inside.

“What I saw was a deputy arrive … take up a position and he never went in,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “There are no words. I mean these families lost their children. We lost coaches,” Israel said.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/b...g/fl-florida-shooting-sro-20180222-story.html

 

So we need to arm the teachers so they can force the police to stop the shootings?

 

I think there's a massive difference between saying "arm the teachers" (what many liberals disingenuously claim conservatives want) and saying "allow qualified teachers to arm themselves if they so choose" (what some conservatives actually say).

Please understand that I'm not calling you conservative, a liberal, or anything else, and that I'm not attributing any point of view to you specifically, but just trying to clarify the talking points that get all-too-often irresponsibly bandied about.

 

@PtldPlatypus is spot-on with my thinking. Coach that ran in to try to protect people didn't get to carry his own weapon (though the JROTC kids said he was a trained gun owner), but cowardly fuck on the gov't dime does. One ends up dead, one ends up not doing his job.

Kind of strengthens the "good guy with a gun can do good" argument.

 

Put another way, a guy who believes in protecting kids would be going home to a wife and daughter and potentially being feted by a few students who would not longer be dead, while a murderous teenager would be in the ground. Instead of the opposite.

 

Again, nobody (intelligent) is advocating this. Change "make" to "permit", and then we're at least discussing the same concept.

 

Coward