by TooFewGuns on Fri Feb 23, 2018 11:33 pm
xd ED wrote:Bearcatrp wrote:Let's see, cop has a pistol, kid has AR and other guns, cop is close to retiring, he is out gunned. What would you do? IMO, be would have been dead too. To hard to say though. Didn't have his training. Don't know if he ever fired his fun during his career. Me, I would have engaged. Also, saw a interview that a teacher saw the kid in full body armor.
The guy collected a paycheck for x decades to act in the event something like this happened.
Sitting it out wasn't part of the deal.
Exactly. If he wasn't willing to act in a situation like this, he should have retired or asked for another assignment years ago. As for the outgunned argument, he is a trained professional up against an untrained kid. He had a better than average chance of improving the end result. In addition to his inaction, 4 more officers arrived on the scene and also waited it out. The teachers who died protecting kids are the only heroes in this situation.
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