@roamer_1
We've heard that before. The cops act as if there could be a massive assault team on every one of these shootings. So they stop and collect all their troops. Meanwhile the shooter continues to shot.
In every case following Columbine there was only one shooter. Even then the two killers traveled together.
No the tactics used by police are there to protect cops, not people. They have decided its acceptable to trade the lives of our children rather then risk one cops life going after a shooter.
In this case a single cop could easily have stopped the shooting. The other police dept did enter the building upon arrival and perhaps they did stop it.
@driftdiver Hindsight is 20/20. I don't care to blame anyone (other than the shooter). I am just looking at the reality of it.
Six minutes. Response time is probably 3 minutes at best. That means it is half over before you even get your ass out of your squad car. Even gearing up in the remaining time, not to mention gaining entry, traversing the building, finding, and getting TO the shooter to stop him in the time remaining is approaching an absurdity.
And as I said, heroism is frowned upon in LEOs. That is being bred out of them. Their reliance on overwhelming force and rigid protocols train them otherwise.
Expecting otherwise from them is a waste of time, even without the dire circumstance.
My point though, is that this entire blame game is pointless.
The problem is six minutes.
The only and obvious answer is that the only reasonable response necessarily must come from within. That means that the solution is in ending the gun free zone. And the more folks argue otherwise, and lay the blame elsewhere, the more kids will die.