Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Scapegoating Scot Peterson won't do anything. He had no way of stopping a man with an semi-automatic weapon.

Some people really buy into "A Good Buy with a Gun" from the NRA. If anyone wants to know what type of police tactic is used in these mass shootings, look at San Bernadino and learn that police are allowed to live when a mass killer is present.

...The first police officer (click here) arrived on scene approximately three and a half minutes after the initial dispatch went out. He was met by three other San Bernardino Police Department officers, all of whom heard the call and responded. None of the officers (one lieutenant, one patrol officer, one homicide detective, and one motorcycle officer) had worked or even trained together. The lieutenant quickly rallied the officers, organized the contact team into a diamond formation (a tactic they had learned during recent active shooter training), and entered the building.

Dozens of victims lay on the ground, many with devastating wounds—moaning and grabbing at the legs of the officers as they moved through the room and tried to focus on finding, apprehending, or neutralizing the assailants....

Police officers are allowed to live and wait for peers in order to neutralize a threat. I doubt Mr. Peterson had enough training to confront a man with a semi-automatic weapon with enough bullets to kill everyone within a mile radius.

If the guns weren't available, people would still be alive.

April 30, 2018
By Wells Dunsenbury

Andrew Pollack, (click here) the father of one of the 17 Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting victims, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against former Broward Sheriff Deputy Scot Peterson, gunman Nikolas Cruz and several others.

Peterson, who was the Parkland school’s resource officer at the time of the Feb.14 attack, has come under immense public criticism for failing to enter the building while the shooting was taking place.

Pollack’s suit, filed in Broward Circuit Court on Monday, also listed as defendants the estate of Lynda Cruz, James Snead, Kimberly Snead, Henderson Behavioral Health, Jerome Golden Center for Behavioral Health INC, and South County Mental Health Center, INC....