[quote=ucodegen]Lets see – shooting lasted about 6 minutes, armed security stood outside for about 4 minutes, knowing that there was a shooting inside – what, to prevent anyone from going inside and stopping it? Oh – thats right, they are from Broward County. Sorry, but I feel particularly snarky on this one.
PS: Now Broward County deputies will now carry rifles on school grounds — are you sure a bigger gun will make them feel man enough to take on one shooter with 4 officers? Maybe a rifle is not big enough.[/quote]
Body armor would help more than bigger guns. AR-15s make a unique sound, so they knew what they were up against, which is terrifying. A 9mm round hitting a non-vital area won’t kill you. An AR-15 round can have an exit wound several inches across – so the kid doesn’t need to hit a vital area to damage it. Get shot in the arm and you might lose the arm. They are also bizarrely light and have almost no recoil, which makes them easy to wield by my 7-year-old daughter, let alone an angry teenager.
Not making excuses for them. Multiple officers should have had the collective balls to go in there.
