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In reply to the discussion: Deputies are guarding the home of the Parkland school shooting officer [View all]Chemisse
(30,811 posts)38. "Cowardly Teacher Escapes with Students; Fails to Use Gun to Hunt Killer."
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Teacher Blasted for Weak Excuse: afraid her own small children would be orphaned
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Deputies are guarding the home of the Parkland school shooting officer [View all]
ansible
Feb 2018
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Hard to say whether Peterson should have rushed in guns ablazing without visuals of what was happeni
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#1
Lots of folks failed- FBI, local police, Cruz's father, folks who support lax gun laws, law makers,
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#6
Didn't have room for "adoptive" father who was a gunner and said he was fine with his "son"
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#10
True "die playing Rambo" isn't part of serving and protecting. Bringing a gun to a rifle
uponit7771
Feb 2018
#45
This guy had one job, ONE JOB. He deserves as much protection as he gave those kids, none.
Afromania
Feb 2018
#11
His job wasn't to die trying to play movie hero. A hand gun in a rifle fight is only in the movies.
uponit7771
Feb 2018
#47
Having a shootout is exactly what the idiot Republicans want teachers to do, and what they
Afromania
Feb 2018
#64
It is so easy for people who are safe at home to demand that someone else with a handgun
tblue37
Feb 2018
#12
Protection today -- Permanent Taxpayer-funded Lifetime Disability tomorrow.
TheBlackAdder
Feb 2018
#13
Imagine the hate that would be spewed toward an armed teacher who failed to take out the gunman?
Chemisse
Feb 2018
#21
Headline: "Negligent teacher used blackboard, failed to watch class when student pulled out weapon"
dalton99a
Feb 2018
#33
My point was, if protecting students with a gun became an expectation of teachers,
Chemisse
Feb 2018
#65
Not Everyone Wants to Step in Front of a Spray of Bullets-Even to Save Children's Lives
dlk
Feb 2018
#26