Armed resource officer stops school shooting at Atlanta middle school

Tony, 10 replies in 19 minutes isn't enough reaction?

And did the kid use an assault rifle? Doesn't sound like it. I'm fine with officers in buildings. As noted, thousands of schools already have this. It's having the George Martins -- or janitors -- running around armed that gives me pause. Now, can we also have armed officers in every: movie theater/restaurant/mall/Walmart/college classroom/college campus/park/office? Or would, maybe, perhaps, trying to limit assault rifles also play a role in preventing *some* mass shootings, in the same way that armed people can prevent *some* mass shootings.

(Although this doesn't sound like a kid who came looking to kill everyone randomly).

 

Cop does job.

 

I would definitely be in favor of schools having a similar-type officers on duty.

As was pointed out, a fully-trained police officer, not some militia guy or an armed civilian volunteer, but a fully-trained police officer.

 

No one can say this with any certainty. Irresponsible to speculate either way. We won't know what was on this kid's mind until he is interrogated. Even then, how can we tell for sure? Kid brought gun to school, kid was stopped. No one knows what would have happened...but we do know what didn't happen.

 

It has to be a trained police officer, not some neighborhood watch guy with a gun permit...

I think we're very close to getting to the point where most schools have someone like this there.

 

The Columbine victims were targeted too...

 

Perhaps. It would be interesting to see how crime rates respond in those communities, though, when you take 5-6 trained officers off the street each day in some school districts. Meaning that, ultimately, there may be a net protection loss for communities because resources are inefficiently distributed.

 

Yep. Love how the anti-gun whack-jobs are trying to downplay what happened here.

 

How so?

 

But we're being told nothing is a higher priority than protecting our kids at school so those stats are really irrelevant.

 

Complete and utter horseshit on your part.

 

Can we not even have a discussion without people throwing fucking stones? Jeez...sorry I brought this up.