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I’m still waiting for more information. This Saturday someone said that the police didn’t hear any shooting and assumed it was a hostage situation.

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there needs to be a correction on Erick's report, a teacher propped a side door open and left it open after the shooting started, they failed to simply lock all the doors to keep the guy out, the security guard was off running personal errands

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During the 1920’s, a school board member put a bomb in a school. He later set off a car bomb when the police, firemen and townspeople came. School terror is nothing new.

Security can be cheap. Big cameras let people know that there is surveillance. Small cameras can be in any common object. Locked doors and windows only work if they are locked. Outer doors can be easily hardened to withstand gunfire. Complacency can get you killed. Protocols were probably written but people stopped following them. Someone in leadership is at fault but they will pass the blame down the line.

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“After Sandy Hook the NRA developed a FREE program to provide security experts for schools to assess security issues and give recommendations as to what they could improve. NOT ONE SINGLE SCHOOL TOOK THEM UP ON THAT OFFER IN SPITE OF IT COSTING THEM NOTHING. Let's keep ignoring school security and keep them easy targets.”

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So this makes all things better? You, and hundreds of others like you, who have a microphone, have just spit in the faces of many, many people who walked, no ran, into a horrible situation trying to save lives based on the information they had at hand. This in a town of 16,000 people, probably less than your neighborhood, and you clearly expected their tiny law enforcement cadre to perform like cops on a TV show, go in and wrap it up in 30 minutes. And, as far as their answers on all that happened, while they’re still reeling from the horrible events they experienced. Guess they didn’t get their script in time for the pummeling. Makes me sick on behalf of all those who protect and defend even if not perfectly. They tried. Would you?

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After Sandy Hook and Columbine, you would think training would enable one to evaluate the situation and not have to wait when gun shots were still be heard and no one tried to stop the shooter. I know my local police department routinely practice this, I was part of an observation group that discuss police tactics to the community. Eric didn't spit in anybody's face, we saw the same thing in the shooting in Fla. Schools are soft targets so there are things to mitigate the issue like Eric mentioned on his show.

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I spent 24 years in the USMC to protect everyone I could. In 1968, I went to Vietnam to teach there military pilots to fly the two 727's us tax payers bought them. During the tet offensive, we were on the roof of our hotel and I could see a US jeep with a machine gun and the private that was trying to keep the rounds in a straight line was NOT doing his job. I went down to help the Sgt keep firing. Yes, we were being fired at but I am a Marine. When NBC and a camera crew arrived, the enemy got their guns going and were firing back. We all took cover but the asst camera man left his legs out and I shouted for him to get them back and lay prone along this 2ft high wall. He did NOT do that and a round took off his leg at the knee. With the firing, I still helped get him in a car they had and with a round hitting the roof right about my head, I still stood there and got him in so they could take off. If you are in a service to serve people, Then get off your --- and serve them as YOU had the training and signed the agreement to serve. If you don't want to do it, stay away from it and stop taking the tax payers money for being scared to do the right thing.

Blessings to you Erick

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We are told that government will protect us. We don’t need to be individually armed. The minions of government have the training.

Door left open? No cop in the school? Cops standing outside protecting parents from going in to be shot? (Sarcasm).

I’m waiting for all the facts to be found and proven before I throw mud on anyone.

The elites can send their children to private schools that have armed security. Arming the staff that wants to carry would have prevented most of the carnage. Across a room even a pocket pistol would do.

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