This ain’t the own this moron thinks it is.
How well is an armed teacher gonna do? Better. Because they are highly motivated at the time to not die.
This is more a commentary on modern LE training and tactics than on the viability of CCW. Especially when you consider the… https://t.co/dRlQ8BaeFZ— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) September 19, 2023
For those of you who don’t want to click over to Twitter (it’s still Twitter to me) to read Larry Correia’s full retort to this civilian disarmament talking point, here’s what he wrote . . .
This ain’t the own this moron thinks it is.
How well is an armed teacher gonna do? Better. Because they are highly motivated at the time to not die.
This is more a commentary on modern LE training and tactics than on the viability of CCW. Especially when you consider the hundreds of examples of regular citizens shooting and prevailing in real life incidents. In this case IIRC the cops breached the wall with an armored car a couple hours after the attack.
Apples and oranges compared to a random person who was standing there while the event unfolded. But it isn’t like anti-gun vultures got time for nuance. They’ve got blood to dance in.
That’s a pretty spot-on takedown. We can’t vouch for the accuracy of the claim that cops fired 150 rounds and only 8 hit the Pulse Nightclub shooter, but it sounds plausible, so let’s stipulate that. Would that surprise you at all given what we know about law enforcement firearm proficiency and performance in other situations?
Correia is correct. The response to the Pulse shooting took a long time, but it was worse than he remembers. It took three hours for cops to finally enter the club. In the grand tradition of spectacular law enforcement response failures such as those at Parkland and Uvalde, police ignored post-Columbine protocols and set up a perimeter rather than going in right away to stop the killer and save as many lives as possible.
As for how well an armed teacher might do in an active shooter situation, 1) who the hell cares and 2) as Correia points out, given the number of defensive gun uses in this country every year (anyone remember Eli Dicken?) and a teacher’s incentive to protect her own life and those of her students, we’ll take those odds.
Never mind the fact that no school with armed teachers has every been attacked. That’s probably just a coincidence, though.
In the end, “data scientist” David Reidman who maintains the K-12 School Shooting Database seems to be arguing that because cops are sometimes cowardly (certainly not all) and can be terrible marksmen, arming teachers is therefore a bad idea, they should be kept disarmed, and deprived of the most effective way to counter a prospective killer.
We don’t know where you need to go to school to reach conclusions like that from whatever data you’re science-ing, but Reidman should be asking for a refund.
