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| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Nature Boy Florida: Coward of Broward County |
| How would you like to be known as that?Wouldn't he have been better off dead?(Cue Kenny Rogers music)www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/23/police-officers-guard-home-deputy-assigned-to-florida-hs-who-never-went-in-during-shooting-report.html |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | UncleJD: |
| There's some great names ... |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Mat: |
| There's some great names in the article, but a little confusing:Scot Peterson - is that the same name of police officer who killed his wives?Tim Burton - like the movie producer?To top if off, the shooter's last name is Cruz. Any relationship to the senator from FL? I know he was adopted (along with his brother), but I would like to know more about his adopted parents and his birth parents. |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Mat: Shoots holes in the theory ... |
| Shoots holes in the theory that a good man with a good and stop a bad man with a gun. Maybe its time to reestablish mental health institutions. I remember passing Moccasin Bend in Chattanooga as a kid. I was fearful of that place and never wanted to end up there, or meet anyone from there (especially one with a gun). |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Cojak: Re: Shoots holes in the theory ... |
| A person taking a 'cushy' job, but not ready to answer THAT call, back up his oath that could have saved at least a few lives. BUT that is all hind sight now, my brother's standard quote, One never knows does one?I think how often and how lightly in my life I have sang, thought and said, I will die for my Lord if need be. Then I see (REALITY) those Egyptian Christians lined up by the Mediterranean allowing their throat to be cut before they would denounce HIM. Then I realize how deep my oath/commitment must be to 'STAND IN THE GAP'!YOU TOOK THE JOB, BE THERE WHEN THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD!Truth is, most people who take the oath, will back it up Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/ |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Mat: Re: Shoots holes in the theory ... |
| Are you are claiming this was a good man with a gun? He wasn't. A sheep posing as a shepherd is not a good man. Try again. Running to a gun fight is never easy, even for the best trained - which I doubt he was/is/or ever will be now.I can't see teachers and educators in this role either. They did not go to college to become armed guards. If there were some who would carry a weapon, and trained to engage a shooter, and have the grit to do so (that's a big if), chances are they would be at the wrong end of the campus if the shooting started. I recall the church in Texas had an active shooter plan and had members who carried, including the pastor. They were absent the day of the shooting. If we were as bold and brave as we are (including me) in real life as we are on the internet, things might be different. |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Cojak: Re: Shoots holes in the theory ... |
| I have never ran to a gunfight. But I have taken an oath before, and took it very serious. I think |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Tom Sterbens: Re: Shoots holes in the theory ... |
| I think the guy was clearly afraid...I feel badly for the shadow he will live under until he dies...I can't imagine the weight of that guilt.I certainly feel far, far worse for the people who dies and the families who remain...I was a LEO for four years when I was young.I have been in multiple situations where threat of life was a reality.One particular situation where I was ambushed by men with rifles - I ran toward them returning fire. I don't know of anyone I worked with who would not have done the same.My point in responding to the above statement is that I think the majority of people on here would have responded to intervene in some manner - but then, I tend to think the best of people.We will never know who might have lived if, nothing else, he would have distracted the gunman by offering some sort of resistance. |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Cojak: Re: Shoots holes in the theory ... |
| YES, that will follow him for the rest of his life. Life's choices are not always easy! And of course I feel for the victims he was paid to protect. Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/ |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Aaron Scott: I hope I would do the right thing...but we never know until we're there.... |
| I doubt a single law officer imagines that he will freeze up or otherwise not do what needs to be done. But just a few weeks back, I saw a video of a law enforcement officer who was under such stress in what seemed to be a not-too-high-pressure of a situation, and he looked like he was about to have a nervous breakdown.Like most of us, I cannot imagine how that man will be able to even face those who would typically be most supportive of him--wife, children, etc. It's something he--and they--will likely never live down. (I am assuming we are really getting the true story about his role, etc.).But when we get right down to it, I wonder if there's more guilt to go around? I have a feeling that the sheriff may eventually be taken down, too. Why? Because (assuming he was in charge when it happened), he had men that did not seem to respond appropriately to the threat that the killer had presented before he ever headed for the school. When people are hurt, they often will lash out at anyone who they think played the smallest role.I agree with Cojak: Most teachers will be utterly inadequate to the task, I would think, of having to perform like a SWAT officer or military person. HOWEVER, in my role as a teacher, I found that a number of the teachers were often retired military types, or had even been in Iraq, etc. So THOSE guys, if they demonstrate that they have their head on straight, might be quite useful. The key, I think, is NOT just how they will respond, but that if a killer knows that there are multiple armed men/women in the school, it might give them pause (although, the fact that there was an armed officer at Parkland did not seem to slow the killer). |
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