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    USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY Feb 23

    An armed school deputy rushed to the Florida high school building where terrified students ran from a killer with an assault rifle, but then sat outside for about four minutes and never went inside. https://usat.ly/2oqMZ4R  #ParklandShooting

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      1. Jeff  🎸 🎼 🐾 🎃 🌊‏ @MusicForLife61 Feb 23
        Replying to @USATODAY

        It's a shame. He froze.. plain and simple, he froze. And they expect teachers to back up the cops?

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      1. Jeff  ❌iller‏ @millerjj660 Feb 23
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Hindsight is 20/20. Let’s get the story here before we vilify this guy. Real life is not like TV where the police have 100% knowledge and communication. These situations are fluid. Just saying.

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      2. Ken Padgett‏ @trngchief11 Feb 23
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Maybe I’m confused but what does this article have to do with banning guns? As some on this thread keep bringing up.

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      3. Leslie‏ @NubianLuv6 Feb 23
        Replying to @trngchief11 @USATODAY

        Well, all of these issues are obviously interlaced, so just the mere mention of the shooting itself will conjure up a variety of discussion topics. The officer who is the focus of this article was faced with a situation where a kid was wielding an assault weapon, and he obviously

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      4. Leslie‏ @NubianLuv6 Feb 23
        Replying to @NubianLuv6 @trngchief11 @USATODAY

        felt “outgunned”, so naturally, one can expect the topic of gun control to be discussed alongside the topic of whether or not the officer reacted appropriately...

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      5. Ken Padgett‏ @trngchief11 Feb 23
        Replying to @NubianLuv6 @USATODAY

        The Orlando nightclub has armed officers on the scene. A gunfight ensued within a darkened bldg filled w/ screaming ppl. Do u not think some were probably friendly fire accidents? Now take a less trained teacher in a bldg with screaming kids and wht do u think will happen?

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      6. Leslie‏ @NubianLuv6 Feb 23
        Replying to @trngchief11 @USATODAY

        You must be (erroneously) thinking that I’m in support of arming teachers...I am most definitely, unequivocally, irrefutably NOT! I was merely explaining why people are bringing in the issue of gun control. You and I both have military experience, and obviously know better than

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      7. Leslie‏ @NubianLuv6 Feb 23
        Replying to @NubianLuv6 @trngchief11 @USATODAY

        to think that something that crazy could even begin to work in a chaotic environment. Seasoned cops have “made the wrong call”, soldiers have “made the wrong call”, there is no way that I’d ever want to saddle an educator with that responsibility, nor would I be comfortable with

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      8. Leslie‏ @NubianLuv6 Feb 23
        Replying to @NubianLuv6 @trngchief11 @USATODAY

        my own children being in a classroom where the teacher is “strapped”. There are other things that can and should be done lonnng before we drop down to that level...

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      2. Erik Tomas‏ @ETRaceline Feb 23
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Think he’ll be fired?

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      3. Cleo G #StreamExpectations  🗽 ♿ 🏳️‍🌈‏ @ColorMeCleo7 Feb 23
        Replying to @ETRaceline @USATODAY

        He resigned

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      4. Erik Tomas‏ @ETRaceline Feb 23
        Replying to @ColorMeCleo7 @USATODAY

        And so he should!

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      1. Ron Vaiculevich‏ @rumbabka1 Feb 23
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Combat, and no other word for it, is a tricky situation. Fear overcomes, but training should have kicked in. Training and courage are inseperable, and only that sheriff can tell us what he was thinking. It would help in training other security officers.

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      2. Hawkeye‏ @NOUVEAUXDEBUTS Feb 23
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Where’s the good guy with a gun saving the day scenario that the Republican Party and @DLoesch and @waynelapierrejr promised will protect our kids at? That good guy knew there was a crazy guy with an assault rifle in that school and he was too afraid to go in. #MAGA #CPAC2018

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      3. Ralph Littlefield‏ @ralittlefieldjr Feb 23
        Replying to @NOUVEAUXDEBUTS @USATODAY and

        I understand your point, but do you think that we should make a policy decision based on this one incident?

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      4. Hawkeye‏ @NOUVEAUXDEBUTS Feb 23
        Replying to @ralittlefieldjr @USATODAY and

        List of school shootings: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States … Mass shootings: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States# … Still think I’m hysterical?

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      1. Sista Geek‏ @clownfishx Feb 23
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Smart cop. Live cop.

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      1. michelle noon‏ @michellenoon1 Feb 23
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Charlton Heston; From My Cold Dead Hands. Long Version http://youtu.be/5ju4Gla2odw  via @YouTube

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      2. Cassandra‏ @shelbyabbie Feb 23
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Poor guy. They're making him a patsy for the failings of the FBI and local cops.

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