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2022-05-28 -Land of the Free
'Good Gal With a Gun' Saves Many Lives in What Could Have Been Mass Casualty Event
[Red State] There are a lot of questions being raised now about the police response to the Uvalde mass shooter. Even Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is saying he was misled by the police about the timeline of what occurred, that they hadn’t told him that they had waited for an hour-and-15-minutes from the time an officer first arrived on the scene until they killed the shooter.

You did have heroic people, like CBP agent Jacob Albarado, who raced into the school with some other agents and helped to get out not only his own daughter but dozens of other children. Albarado urged people to allow teachers to be trained and carry, to be able to defend themselves and their students. It’s not hard to think of how different things might have been had that been the case.

Indeed, we can look to a case that just happened in Charleston, West Virginia, on Wednesday night.

Dennis Butler, 37, was warned about speeding near a party where children were present in an apartment complex. Then Butler reportedly returned with an AR-15 and began shooting. It was a recipe for a disaster; there were dozens of people at the party and a lot of people could have been hurt or killed. But a woman who was a guest at the party was lawfully carrying a pistol. She pulled it, fired, and took down Butler. He sustained multiple gunshot wounds and later died.

"Instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives last night," Charleston Police Lieutenant Tony Hazelett confirmed. "She was lawfully carrying a firearm and stopped a threat. There was a graduation party and a party with kids so obviously someone just graduated high school and we could have had a casualty shooting."
Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-28 03:50|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 

Are we seeing a pattern here?

Liberals, Socialists & Democrats in power, seeking greater gun control or total elimination, during and
Uphill election year.

The US sees an increase in Mass shootings at schools, big stores and Malls.

Police arrive and are told to stand-down for extended period of time. eg. Parkland, Sandy, etc...
Posted by NN2N1 2022-05-28 06:45||   2022-05-28 06:45|| Front Page Top

#2 School shooting follow-up article:

Jeffrey Lord - Photos Of Off-Duty Border Agent Who Killed Texas School Shooter
Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-28 07:24||   2022-05-28 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 From a retired police officer and friend:

There has been a concerted action in the past decade or so in LE to make cops more socially "acceptable". Programs like COP (Community Oriented Policing) and "Coffee with a Cop" come to mind. That and the efforts to be "inclusive", ie. hire more women and minorities. There are also lots of departments that strive to make themselves "friendlier looking", e.g. fancy paint jobs on the patrol cars and cops with beards, etc. All this is well and good, I suppose, but it's long term effect (in this one old cop's opinion) has been that cops have forgotten their prime mission statement - in a word: Enforcement. The operative portion of that word is "force". It's not "convince" or "plead" or other weasle words. Policing to me always meant being there with a smile, but with an attack plan in my head - be prepared at a drop of a hat to go from friendly cop to attack cop. Many, many new cops don't have that. Not their fault - it's the liberal societies fault. In recent years there is also the "G. Floyd" effect - don't do anything (even the right thing), that may get you fired or sent to the slam. Long story short: Woke cops don't automatically "run to the gun". Sad.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-28 07:38||   2022-05-28 07:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Most teachers don't want to be the one carrying a gun. Their instincts are not to run toward the shooter. Not my opinion, opinion of many teachers I have spoken to.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-05-28 08:15||   2022-05-28 08:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Most teachers don't want to be the one carrying a gun.

A lot of new male teachers from the year groups 1945-1955 might have had a different attitude.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-28 08:37||   2022-05-28 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 
Richmond co. GA.
They have Armed School deputy police.
No shootings inside the county schools reported since it started. Just a lot of arrests.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-05-28 08:56||   2022-05-28 08:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Like running a clean election, defending a school from one out-of-place person isn't that hard. One must assume the powers that be have reasons for not doing it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-28 09:00||   2022-05-28 09:00|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ "Reasons" ....yes of course. Second Amendment attacks began almost immediately, and at the highest levels of gov't.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-28 09:06||   2022-05-28 09:06|| Front Page Top

#9 There are more people than teachers in the building. If they still have gym teachers, not all of them will be sheep. Ultimately, I don’t care if the hair-netted lunch lady is the one who is packing as long as she is in the building and will run towards the sound of gunfire.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-05-28 10:26||   2022-05-28 10:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Some of the lunch ladies at my elementary school would not even have needed a gun.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-28 10:54||   2022-05-28 10:54|| Front Page Top

#11 I was about to say the same thing murcek, I don't know about now , but those were some tough looking ladies back in the day.
Posted by Chris 2022-05-28 12:57||   2022-05-28 12:57|| Front Page Top

#12 The nuns at my school could stop bullets with their wimples. Ramos wouldn't have dared to even point his gun at Sister Freddie.
Posted by Oye Como Va 2022-05-28 13:18||   2022-05-28 13:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Step 1, have doors locked from outside, alarmed if propped opened or open longer than 30 seconds.

Step 2, Eliminate 1-2 'Administrators' per school and hire former military (Combat arms/Military Police Only) to have at least 2 per school. They will be at the school during school hours and make regular patrols while wearing full battle rattle (Armor, weapon with optics, etc). Each has master key for school.
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-05-28 19:41||   2022-05-28 19:41|| Front Page Top

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