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Originally Posted by dobbles
The part that saddens me is that with the passive strategy, kids have literally no hope of help until a swat team arrives. That's why I was moderately critical of the officers response. Not because I want teachers armed or more guns around, but I was apparently mistakenly naive to think that having armed police in schools could help keep them safe.
In my high school (95-99, ~1500 kids) we had an armed officer. In our case he was a regular city police officer that got h.s. duty as his assignment. He helped with truancy and all sorts of other things, but I had always assumed if an attack happened he would be our first line of defense.
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As I said I am not opposed to the cop running in and getting himself killed, which is what would happen assuming he could find the shooter, but to assume anyone would do that as part of their job description is foolish, you cannot make people heroic, if you put people in a group and train that group to move into danger you have a good chance they will go along, that's how we train soldiers, but on our own the basic instinct to survive will almost always overwhelm any training.