- LEOs selected for SRO duty seem to be... less than cream of the crop. Plus, they are often overworked and bouncing between campus and the PD.
Don't confuse these REOs with the DARE officers. In my experience the REOs go massively "Sheepdog" fast.
If the SRO was there, I don't think he'd have the training to deal with the pandemonium in the cafeteria (or any commons area), infilt, and neutralize the shooter.
Don't confuse these REOs with the DARE officers. In my experience the REOs go massively "Sheepdog" fast. Oh yeah, that confusion thing, fog of war etc. . . And you think a non-professional guy with a gun is going to have the whatever it is (since training doesn't seem to count) to do all this. What exactly happens when you pull your Glock from your ankle holster? Is it sort of like when the Green Lantern turns his ring?
- I and many others, once we heard there was a shooter didn't even know where the shooter was, exactly. At first, we heard that he was in the library. In reality, the library was being used as an informal triage point.
Thank goodness all the CC dudes didn't head to the Library! Imagine some untrained dude crashing the door and seeing someone kneeling over a bloody body. EU! Sorry. . .
- While the incident seemed to go on for an hour, it was really just a few minutes... hardly any time for anyone not on the scene to help. If a good guy was there and armed at the time, it probably would've been over a lot more quickly and with less innocent blood.
What if there was some better controlled access to the campus or some better controlled access to weapons? (Here we GO!
) From your description, good guys were there and were effective with a bum rush. Why do you think cops like dogs? Now there is an idea I can support give the REO's dogs. Kids love dogs! Dog love kids.l
Dozer, with all due respect (and there's a lot of it there), I have to take issue with your words concerning police response. I think you may be overestimating the response time, training, and mobility of an SRO and the PD.
Per, thank you for that and please don't take my response as disrespect. It is not -- . All the arguements against the present system point to particular cases, Where the plan was unable to work be cause the POS defeated the defense. Everyone here has to know that there is no static defense that cannot be overcome with good planning, prep, equipment. That's why Target Analysis is so much fun! If the defense plan has time to work (don't do it. . . keep reading.) it will. If the POS gains the initiative and there is not time then we have an entirely different situation and we fall back on the old Infantry Center's School solution, "DOTS, Depends On The Situation".
We should be responsible and allowed to do for ourselves and our own.
Wrong. Once YOUR kids show up on campus they are MY kids. If you do not like that you can try to find a private school that agrees with your position on weapons on campus -- good luck. Home Schooling might be another option.
Having our constitutional rights infringed and being forced to rely on the police response is a losing battle.
The Constitution is a much bigger document then you might imagine.Respectfully,Per
Backatchoo, Dozer
Disclaimer: This is a rather emotional issue and I get a bit heated when someone advocates taking away my right to have the tools necessary to survive wherever I might need them, God forbid.
KKHH