Deputy at Stoneman Douglas High School resigns

A deputy who worked at Stoneman Douglas High School has resigned in disgrace for not charging into the school during the mass shooting in which 17 students and teachers were killed. The shooting lasted six minutes and the deputy was outside taking cover for four minutes.

A teacher defended the deputy and said he wouldn't have stood a chance in a crowded hallway, a handgun vs an assault rifle.

It's the problem with the idea of arming teachers. Unless they're walking around with a submachine gun like a French gendarme, they're not going to be much of a match for a lunatic with an assault rifle.

The NYPD statistic for cops hitting their targets in a gun fight is 18%. It's more likely the deputy would have killed a few more kids than stopped the guy with the assault rifle.

Instead of arming teachers, they should arm high school seniors. If they're 18, it wouldn't be illegal for them to openly carry guns. They haven't developed a pitiful fear of death like that poor deputy. If anyone started shooting the boys would all come running. There's a pretty good reason they send teenagers to war and not school teachers.

I knew a woman here who applied for a job as a deputy. She was asked if she would be willing to give her life to save someone else. She said, "No. Why should I?" The sheriff didn't want to hire her but some of the others on the panel though she deserved credit for honesty.

And, really, if you're only going to save one person, why SHOULD you? There would be no net gain, and the person you save might turn out to be way worse than you.