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Thank God that there was an armed officer at the school and it wasn't a "gun-free zone." Besides the obvious (more armed & trained school officers / officials) what about metal detectors at the doors / entrances? Currently, only a small fraction of schools have metal detectors. See:



Source:

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=334

Won't be simple or easy, but my hunch is that it would be effective. You can't enter a Court House, a Federal Govt. Building or an Airport without going through a metal detector ..... unfortunately it seems we are at a time when schools should be added to that list.

>>The shooter exchanged fire with a school resource officer, a trained, armed deputy sheriff, Cameron said. The shooter was wounded; the officer was not.<<


Hard to say how many other kids this guy saved.

Watch the left hand not the right. We will be gone, our children will be anti-gun.

Yours might.

I gave my son an AR15 about 3 years ago. He hunts with it constantly!

Prayers to the families of the innocent. No one should have to worry about their kid going to school.

Prayers and a word of thanks to the SRO who did it right and go into the fight. He certainly saved lives this day.

Here in this state, a bad one was thwarted when the kid decided not to do it yesterday. He had a "kill list" and when that was finished, he wanted to bring the school down on top of him. Stole guns from his grandpa and cut the barrels down as well as having made Moltov cocktails; all were ready to go, even told his siblings they better stay home from school. He got cold feet and told his parents. Parents told the cops and now he's sitting in jail, waiting to see if they're going to try him as an adult. Kid says he was bullied.

They can trace the gun. If they are invited in, they can move a lot faster than if an agency sends them a request and then have to wade through the bureaucracy to get the results.

The ATF, unlike the FBI, don't take over when they come into a situation like this, they work with the agency to investigate and prosecute.

Ed

Three cheers for the school resource officer !!

Same here. My kids were given their own firearms when they were 16, but had been shooting since they were little kids. My grandsons are also shooters with their own guns.

Ed

It was just reported that the shooter shot himself.

The shooter died.

That would help the shooters a bunch. Queue all the kids up outside all the security as they wait to be scanned, and now they can be picked off without the shooter gaining access to the school at all.

Three more cheers for the resource officer !!

Yep,

They're persistent and patient. Socialists not too unlike the Muzzies and Commies... Birds of a feather...

They're in it for the long haul, are willing to wait us ole farts out. They've indoctrinated the youth, taught the teachers in the left leaning colleges how to teach leftist propaganda, rewrite history, etc.

DF

Well they certainly don't want an armed cop on campus stopping a crazed gunman, so yeah, he has to shoot himself, whether he actually shoots himself or not.

Two students were shot,one in critical condition the other in stable condition.

One of the reporters gave credit to the resource officer for engaging the shooter.

I'm shocked!

Great job on the resource officer doing his job with bravery. It sounds like he engaged the shooter instead of hiding and crying behind his cruiser.

This chit is getting very old very fast.

Most of those shooters will kill themselves once they are confronted with armed response.

Evidently the SRO did fire at the shooter. Most sources say he wounded him, or hit the shooter with gunfire.

Exactly!