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Not, “how can we make you safe?” or “what can we do to keep you safe?”, but the much more business-friendly, “how can we help you feel safe?”
It’s not doing, it’s helping. The government isn’t about to do anything. But they might help you do something, because it’s your responsibility.
And what is your responsibility? Feeling safe. Not being safe, but feeling safe. If you don’t feel safe, that’s entirely on you.
Probably some fiery speeches, maybe a T-shirt with a catchy pro-gun-therefore-pro-safe slogan, perhaps allowing gun-owners to deduct the purchase of new guns from their taxes or maybe offer a deductible based on how many guns you own… those are things that might help someone feel safe.
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Which is probably the real reason they want to arm teachers. Not so teachers can actually stop the next mass shooting, but so they can take the blame when they are unable to do so.
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I despise the Great Cheeto as much as the next guy, but having notes to remind you what you planned to say is a good idea. He apparently didn’t use them, though, which of course he didn’t.
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It’s not that he had notes; it’s the content.
That he has to be reminded to fake appearing compassionate around survivors of a horrific tragedy, that speaks loudly to what a self-absorbed sociopath he seems to be.
Now, that said, here’s a dedication to the needlessly irate party in this thread:
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He’s apparently no better at being a human being over the phone.
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“He said he heard I was a big fan of his…”
Jesus Christ. He needs to have his ego stroked just to make it through a sympathy call with a wounded child.
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Yup.
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A lot of people are understandably attacking the deputy for cowardice, but realistically even if he’d gone it in seems likely he wouldn’t have made much of a difference. He was considerably outgunned, after all.
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I agree, but this clearly shows that “good guys with guns” is clearly not the solution. In general, more guns is way far from the solution to this problem, since guns are the problem Arming teachers is sad, stupid, and dangerous.
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Scot Peterson is a sheriff’s deputy with an assignment–hired to do a job.
Scot Peterson agreed to be armed security at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Scot Peterson is a grown man.
Peter Wang died helping his fellow students get to safety.
Peter Wang was a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
He was 15 years old and more a man than Scot Peterson.
“In my classroom, I tried to teach Peter
principles of good citizenship,” 1st Sgt. John Navarra, Peter’s JROTC
instructor, told us, pausing to allow simultaneous Chinese translation
for the friends and family gathered here. “I did not realize how great a
citizen he already was.”
and
In his final moments as a human being,
before an unsophisticated killer with a sophisticated weapon took away
all his plans and potential, Peter Wang was a helper. He was every inch
the man he’d wanted to be.
src:
https://taskandpurpose.com/parkland-douglas-peter-wang-saying-goodbye/
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And I get why people are attacking him.
But if anyone thinks all those newly armed teachers are going to do better in an active fire situation than a trained deputy did they’re fooling themselves. I know my first instinct would probably be to get my ass out of there, not to draw my weapon and run down the hallway looking to go John Wick on the guy carrying a military-grade rifle.
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“What makes you think that?”
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Irrelevant. He betrayed his oath and those students. If possible the state should charge him as a bloody accessory. So yes, he is a fucking coward.
Of course with how policing actually works, he’ll be employed again as a cop within weeks.
Cops have no obligation to put themselves at risk in any part of their job.
They can kill anyone for any or no reason, even shooting them in the back at a distance while their victim flees. And they have no obligation to put themselves in danger and have no duty to serve and protect the public.
There’s really not much difference between the cops and any street gang. The police just have more formalized facilities.
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This is, of course, one of the fundamental differences between cops and soldiers. When a soldier is given a lawful order to “charge that machine gun, son” they are required to do so. Police are under no such compulsion. Scot Peterson is being hung out to dry for not doing something that was NOT HIS JOB. He should not have been fired for that. And yes I know that technically he resigned, but this was very much a push/jump situation in the rush to find a scapegoat.
Peterson is NOT the problem here, folks. Leave the poor guy alone. He has more than enough of his own demons to deal with now.
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(in case it’s unclear, this is the Sheriff, not the Deputy who was guarding the school)
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