The shooting lasted only a few minutes, and it happened in a massive building. It is a lie or a delusion to say that armed teachers could have stopped it before significant harm had been done.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School , is a big building. It holds a lot of kids.
Schools like this are built to be open. They are built so that students and teachers can exit the building quickly in the event of an emergency. They have dozens of doors which open to the outside. If a door is left open, anyone can enter the building from the outside.
In school, we spend the day trying to have our students be in a relaxed and receptive learning state. We don’t want to spend a lot of time creating distractions from learning.
In thousands of schools all across the country, for 100% of the time, there is no need to even fear a school shooter, but now our entire school system is going to be in the position of adding security measures that normalize mass shootings and other public massacres.
All so we can maintain the status quo on guns.
He pulled a fire alarm. The students exited the classrooms.
He started shooting at 2:21.
He stopped shooting at 2:25.
The shooter dropped his stuff. He then joined in with the rest of the students as they left.
Before anyone ever would have encountered him, he was done with his murders. He became invisible as he blended in with the sea of frantic teenagers.