Tragic. Some of the injuries and 1 homicide may have been avoided.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1004636
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1004636
Schools shouldn't need police officers. We didn't have them 30 years ago.
Both statements are true, and no one could disagree. But our world has changed and there is no going back.
"The school expected the resource officer to help with traffic and became upset when the sheriff’s office asked the deputy to prioritize other duties."
Can't be inside the school if he is playing traffic cop.
Schools shouldn't need police officers. We didn't have them 30 years ago.
That is so true. Many of us didn't need home motion activated security cameras, motion detector security lighting and doorbell cameras back then either but how many here have them now. Granted the technology we have today wasn't available then but it's just another sad chapter added to the world we now live in.Schools shouldn't need police officers. We didn't have them 30 years ago.
Schools shouldn't need police officers. We didn't have them 30 years ago.
There were some report that the school guard fired his weapon during the event. I saw some reports that he fired on responding officer and may also have fired at at least one kid. The reporting on this event has been very very strange. Lots of quotes and few facts. It has been impossible to tell who did what. Which shooter shot what kids, and who exactly subdued who. All that raises red flags to me. It always seems that something is rotten in Denmark (ver)."After the dispute, the school still had a daily part-time, off-duty sheriff’s deputy with a squad car in addition to full-time private security, the statement said."
I have not read anything that the Security Officer and Sheriff Officers delayed their response. One report said that the Security Officer tackled one of the attackers and held her (?) until Sheriff Officers arrived.
"The school expected the resource officer to help with traffic and became upset when the sheriff’s office asked the deputy to prioritize other duties."
Can't be inside the school if he is playing traffic cop.
Coverage is lacking as the incident doesn't fit the main stream medias usual narrative of these types of senseless tragedies. No evil black rifle was used and one of the shooters is a female identifying as male transgender.There were some report that the school guard fired his weapon during the event. I saw some reports that he fired on responding officer and may also have fired at at least one kid. The reporting on this event has been very very strange. Lots of quotes and few facts. It has been impossible to tell who did what. Which shooter shot what kids, and who exactly subdued who. All that raises red flags to me. It always seems that something is rotten in Denmark (ver).
Child acts up in school. Administrator meets with parents. Parents say your picking on my kid. Kid sees no recourse on his/her actions. Kids do what they want. There in lies the problem. My fear was school calling home because my dad would break his foot off in my a$$.
There was another recent event in I think North Carolina where a brave student died protecting others. He was in the ROTC. The one that died in Colorado was planning to be a Marine. When you first see these reports you could think "Why are the children stuck protecting themselves?", then you realize 17- and 18-year-old young men have always been in our armed forces. Maybe their couch potato video-game-addict classmates are "children", but these heroes are not.Those four kids, especially the one that was killed saved lives that day. That is what the media should be portraying that we had a coward come to school and try and take innocent lives but was stopped by brave students.
The antis are adamantly opposed to teachers carrying, and portray it as being a job requirement for which many teachers would be unsuited or find uncomfortable. AFAIK the idea is that teachers who already shoot and have a carry permit should be ALLOWED to carry in school. Which probably needless to say I would support 100%.The implication seems to be that the SRO was a deterrent when present, and that his absence created the perception of opportunity for the murderers.
NPR has another interview this morning with a Columbine survivor who is now a Colorado state legislator. He offers a bill every legislative session to allow teachers to carry concealed. The idea is that an unknown/uncertain credible force of some armed staff would act as a deterrent to coward murderers who want no opposition in a gun free zone.
Parents need to recognize when a child is troubled, rather than living in denial as many do.This is an old debate. Some folks will say that they are the masters of their house and given the kid safety lessons from birth on guns to de-mystify them. Others will point to children who have retrieved family guns and saved the day.
It's not clear from research that the safety lessons stick with kids. You may think your know your child's life and pressures but you may not. Being a psychologist and having studied developmental issues, my take is that I wouldn't leave guns unlocked in general. I would instruct my children on firearms and if there was a particular raised threat (as after a disaster), I might make the guns available but I wouldn't every day. Just as kid, I was exposed to wine but the liquor was locked up. Once past the legal age, my dad and I would take a drink together.
Certainly, not taking precautions around a troubled child is really stupid. That has happened with some school shooters. The parents paid the price as first victims.
YMMV.