Posted on 01/07/2013 2:30:19 PM PST by marktwain
Not only would that not stop a determined shooter, if there hadn’t been an armed “school safety officer” there, this guy would have killed the principal with the first few shots and the alert may not even have gone out. What if people didn’t hear the shots and the next thing they heard was a fire alarm? Next thing you know, the hallways are full of targets.
The officers who were sent by dispatch did a good job, but the onsite officer saved a bunch of kids that no one could have saved otherwise.
It’s very difficult to kill another human being face to face and many people delay pulling the trigger as long as possible. That said, she may have figured there was a strong possibility she would lose the gunfight (at that range with guns already drawn and pointed at each other even training won’t make enough difference) and he would step over her body and start killing kids, but if she kept him talking he wasn’t shooting, and backup would eventually arrive and change the tactical equation to a definite dead bad guy outcome.
I saw this video long ago...It was like watching a comedy skit with the two pointing weapons at each other for a long time...Like a Mexican standoff...
Clearly this woman was not physically fit or trained well. If she had been, she would have opened up immediately upon seeing the gun, and this would have been over quickly.
She was just damn lucky he didn't' pull the trigger first.
Probably a lib.
That icky thing is part of her uniform. She was never going to actually have to use it, was she?
File this under; So damn lucky to be alive it isn’t funny.
Yep...No doubt she was another affirmative action job winner. It’s something you’d expect out of a pink panther movie...
Bump.
Feinstine makes platitudes from the coffins of children.
Bump!
From the article: “Carolyn Gudger, the school resource officer, drew her gun, then shielded the principal’s body with her own.”
You said she was likely an “affirmative action job winner”. I say she put her ass on the line. Who the hell knows why she didnt fire, and it didnt matter in the end, the bad guy got his lead one way or the other.
Jeez people, can you not believe that sometimes black people actually do things right!
Stop with the hero BS. In most circumstances and venues, if ya tried what this woman did, you’d be way dead Fred.
The ***only*** reason this did not end badly, was due to the fact the bad guy didn’t put a bullet through her head by simply pulling the trigger first.
there are no liberals in the foxhole.
he was a retired vet(?) and seemed somwhat agile.
she was out of shape and overweight.
and yet they were equalized enough with tools for her to delay him and save one life confirmed, and probably the kids too.
there are no liberals in the foxhole.
Now the facts:
She's lucky this nutball was extra stupid.
How long ya think she would have lasted against someone genuinely bent on killing? Like Dylan Klebold? The Virginia tech shooter, Aurora CO, or sandy hook killer?
The ugly fact is this lady and her strategy would have lasted about a 1/2 second and she'd be way dead.
If your going to put armed people in schools for protection, which is perfectly appropriate, it's best to use fit and trained individuals. This woman was clearly not trained or fit, and is extremely lucky to be alive.
“Stop with the hero BS.”
LOL
Polyana’s abound....
The thread is yours!
You may have had a gun pointed at you. If so, you have more experience than I do and I defer to your superior knowledge and experience.
You apparently know that “In most circumstances and venues, if ya tried what this woman did, you’d be way dead Fred.” I dont know that; again I defer to your superior knowledge on that.
My point is that the woman, who you chose to identify for some reason as an affirmative action hire, didn’t bolt when she probably could have. I don’t know why she didn’t fire, she might not have been confident a round was even chambered. But then you would always know such a thing and would stay cool as a cucumber looking down a gun barrel.
No doubt you are fit as a fiddle and could take on ten armed SWAT members with ... a herring!
So - you win!
Take the last word and we can be done.
Take care,
FL
You are exactly correct it didn’t fit the adjenda so it was ignored.
Again, you have absolutely no clue here slick.
Probably 99 percent of cops never had guns pointed at them, but I can guarantee you 99 percent of them will shoot you dead in 1 second of ya point a gun at them.
Don't believe me? Just try it sometime.
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