Police officers are not expected to put their lives on the line during mass shooting events. The Uvalde cops acted as they were trained and instructed to do. They left the scene when they hear gunfire in a room they also know students are inside. They then stayed outside and prevented parents from doing what they would not do.
It's all proper and legal too.
Then-Parkland school resource officer who stayed outside during mass shooting found not guilty
Fort Lauderdale, FloridaCNN —
A jury has acquitted on all counts the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida – absolving him of wrongdoing in the rare trial of a law enforcement officer for his response to a mass shooting.
Scot Peterson, 60, took off his glasses and wept in court as the judge read the verdict, which found him not guilty of seven counts of felony child neglect, three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjury.
“I’ve got my life back,” Peterson, a former deputy for the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, told reporters outside court, describing the years since the shooting as “an emotional roller coaster.”
Personally, I don't want to make it so that police officers are required to run toward danger like that. On the other hand, I saw this from Oregon's Sheriffs regarding the very reasonable regulations that voters passed going on TWO YEARS ago and are still tied up in courts.
A growing list of Oregon sheriffs are telling their constituents they won’t enforce voter approved gun restrictions despite not yet knowing how some aspects of the law will work and not having a clear role in enforcing others.
www.opb.org
Pulling from extremist playbook, Oregon sheriffs refuse to enforce gun laws
A growing list of Oregon sheriffs are telling their constituents they won’t enforce voter-approved gun restrictions despite not yet knowing how some aspects of the law will work and not having a clear role in enforcing others.
In a Nov. 9 Facebook post, Linn County Sheriff Michelle Duncan said Measure 114, which 50.7% of voters approved the day before, is a terrible law for gun owners, crime victims and public safety. The measure would require a permit to buy a firearm and ban magazines holding more than 10 rounds.
“I want to send a clear message to Linn County residents that the Linn County Sheriff’s Office is NOT going to be enforcing magazine capacity limits,” Duncan wrote in the post, which as of Friday had been shared 12,000 times and garnered 9,300 comments.
A lot of gun owners supported measure 114. A lot of gun owners across the nation say they support laws like it. So this is not a rant against gun ownership. A strong majority recognize that high capacity magazines are not necessary or even desirable for using a gun in self defense. There are always exceptions to this sweeping statement but very few.
Maybe I'm conflating two different issues but I'll risk it. On the one hand, they tell their officers to back away when a man is rampaging with a semi automatic gun with a high capacity magazine -- the AR 15 with 30 or so rounds seems to be the mass shooter's weapon of choice. On the other hand, they say they won't work with the state to find safe and sane ways to enforce very reasonable regulations that would ban high capacity magazines
MEANWHILE, a trend I've seen is people are being encouraged to fight and not hide. It's worked too, recent news in Kansas City, for example. Brave men saved lives. I've read of a report from Texas where a man sacrificed his life by attacking the gunman and distracted him so that others could take him down.
So, people with no training are being told to face and attack a man the police are afraid to face and our sheriffs don't want to upset their constituents about new gun laws that would make it more likely to survive such an event because they don't want controversy?
And death by gun is the most common cause of child mortality in the US.
I'll stop ranting now.
abcnews.go.com
