re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth

I understand that some folks want to insist that running in the building “was his job”.

I’m pretty sure that the job description of “school resource officer” does NOT include being a blood sacrifice martyr just so people have a “hero” to weep over.

I don’t know about the rest of the country, but here in TheBackwoods, our school resource officers mostly deal with drugs, minor disciplinary issues, and (this is going to be a shocker for people have to deal with bad resource gung-ho officers in their school systems) the cops in the school that a kid knows they can talk with when there is a problem.

If there is anything that requires a lockdown, the school resource officer waits for backup because that’s the established protocol.

Dead heroes are just dead and don’t accomplish anything in the process other than dying.

His job was to be a deterrent. “If we have someone with a gun, then no one will want to shoot.” Well, that’s failed. “But, wait. Maybe we need more than one.”