[Oldeconomybuyer]

[mplc51]

RIP Buddy....God Speed!

[DoughtyOne]

RIP bud...

I won’t be forgetting you very soon.

[Enterprise]

R.I.P.

[ConservativeMind]

In Florida, they train them to throw more children at the shooter, in an effort to force the attacker to run out of ammo.

[Cicero]

May God bless his soul.

[PGR88]

Thank you Sgt Helus.

[exnavy]

Well done Sgt. Helus.

[Joe 6-pack]

No greater love.
RIP

[lightman]

O beautiful, for heroes proved
In liberating strife
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life...

May his Memory be Eternal!

[heights]

Why were the Four off-duty cops in the bar UNARMED?

[FrdmLvr]

He was close to retirement. What a shame.

[Tired of Taxes]

Rest in peace, Sgt. Helus.

[sargon]

“In almost every active shooter situation in recent times where police get there while the shooting is still going on, police go in at high risk to themselves, following a national training model, which is immediate intervention,” said Jim Bueermann, president of the Police Foundation, a nonprofit research and training organization.

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Except, of course, at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School here in Broward County, Florida, where hundreds of children were at risk, and where the Democrat-controlled hierarchies—from the school board, to the Sheriff, to the government—inadvertently did everything within their power to increase the likelihood of experiencing a mass shooting precisely like the one that occurred...

[logi_cal869]

Here’s the deal: With rising mental health rates and progressive gun control, the probability of an active shooter scenario goes up every day for many law enforcement officers. Rather than AR15s, they deserve the tools to help ensure a successful encounter, if for no other reason than to save lives.

Ballistic shields have existed for years, both in rigid form and flexible, dynamic cover options. In contrast to body armor, they have a long service life and are dirt cheap for their intended role.

IMHO there is no excuse for many law enforcement agencies to not have these readily available to officers. Entering an active-shooter situation blind with such protection affords an officer a probability of successful encounter an order of magnitude greater than entering blind with nothing but internal structure drywall cover around corners.

There is no doubt that Deputy Helus’ actions saved lives by entering the building, but it was a needless loss. The media can play its gun control games, but I’m more concerned about giving officers the tools they need to both save lives AND go home afterwards if the public in these areas insist on disarming citizens.

Final note: If gun control nuts insist upon the “reaction standard” & refuse to give officers the tools they need, they can cry me a river about their “losses”...gun control will never stop the bloodshed (paging Dr. Obvious).