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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe if civilians didn’t have so many guns cops wouldn’t be so afraid. 🤔 [/quote]

+1 LEOs should be brave, but at the end of the day, going after that gunman would have been a suicidal mission.  If four men had rushed him, maybe 3 would have been shot dead.  Doesn’t mean that’s not their job, but we should have some empathy for the fact that these school officers are not Secret Service officers.  [b]Some may not have signed up with the idea that they need to throw their body in front of a crazed teen with 2 automatic weapons with 200 bullets.  That’s a big ask. [/b] [/quote]

It’s not what teachers signed up for either but here we are.

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I agree.  But most teachers got to stay home during CoViD due to a known risk of a pandemic.  There have been many cases of educators dying shielding their students from bullets with their bodies.  But we’re asking LEOs to run towards gunfire.  And not all of them are trained and willing to do that.  I can’t imagine a school based cop is particularly well trained in these areas.  [/quote]

Except they’re the ones who are supposed to be the first responder. They’re taught this. Uvalde police definitely were trained, in class and role play. You should read the thread. It clears up these ideas that they didn’t know what they were getting into, that they’re supposed to wait for special gear or special forces, or whatever.   https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1530357140191186944?s=20&t=y6Px4GFXMvcM_4WoUk0cUA

From the training materials: The guidelines provide sobering clarity: The first officers may be risking their lives. But, it says, innocent lives take priority.

“A first responder unwilling to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field."
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