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That's the part that is absolutely disturbing. Over 19+ men minimum right there and not ONE broke rank and went after dude. They all need to lose everything they have

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You never know how you’re going to act until you’re in that position. Generally you can train yourself to just react without thinking but that takes hundreds/thousands of hours of training to overcome your natural fears/doubts.

Without sufficient training to help you overcome it, you’ll look for any excuse not to. That’s what I legitimately believe happened here.

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This idea here is the only thing that possibly makes sense to me. But to think that there wasn't even one hero in the bunch that could overcome that notion.

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Let’s first start with some assumptions that the general public is making that are false.

The initial responding officers did not know that there was only one shooter, or why he was shooting. They didn’t know his intent.

It could have been a domestic situation. It could have been a drug deal gone bad. The shooter might have been targeting someone specific either at the funeral home, or some other business, or someone on the street.

From the time lines that I have seen, the actions of the shooter and of the individual officers are mostly plotted out (some speculation as well) but we don’t know what each officer knew at any given moment in time.

The intention of the shooter was not known and it was not known if he might have had an accomplice, a second shooter, or if he had any explosives, which are common.

The officers did follow him into the building after coming under fire. He had already had plenty of time to shoot whoever he planned to shoot in the classroom where he barricaded himself, and he shot at the officers through the door.

The officers kept him from advancing further into the school and killing more students and teachers. They evacuated the kids when they were able to establish a safe zone.

They established a perimeter and kept parents from entering a shooting gallery in a very foolhardy though understandable effort to save their children. The officers knew correctly that the best chances to keep more people from being shot was to keep parents from blindly rushing into a turkey shoot.

It is valid to question whether the police should have attempted to access the barricaded room sooner. Yes, the incident should be investigated for proper handling. Nevertheless, decisions like that under fire are never easy.

And it is clear that the general public are so blind in their shock and dismay at this terrible
crime, that they are looking to place the blame on as many people as possible, and the police are taking too much criticism in my opinion.

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There have been times that the back - and even front - doors to my house have been left unlocked on accident. Not often, but a couple of times. I always wondered when I got home if someone was in the house.

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I did that once when I went on vacation - the police called my parents to come shut the garage door. Now I have an app on my phone so I know if it's open and I can close it from anywhere.