Google Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School and look at it on the map. It’s a huge campus with a dozen or more buildings. The resource officer could have been anywhere on that campus so the fact that they weren’t there exchanging shot with the killer doesn’t mean the SRO was absent.
The loosely stated claims that the SRO was ‘elsewhere’ on the campus only popped up a day after the initial statements that the SRO was off campus.
Yet the SRO was wholly absent after the shooting - and I say that given the fact that no one is saying that he was helping to secure the school after the shooting. No one is saying he was on campus immediately after the shooting.
It’s an important question because if the SRO was indeed absent then that makes a serious case for teachers to have the option of concealed carry.