
Hero cop Scot Peterson, bravely hiding behind a wall for over forty-five minutes while children were murdered.
So there WAS an armed guard at the school. The proverbial “good guy with a gun” was an armed sheriff’s deputy. A hero cop who heard shots fired inside the school and bravely hid outside behind a brick wall while the people he was hired to protect were gunned down. So, please, post more of your brainless, cartoonish platitudes about how we need more guns in schools. More officers and guards on campus. Armed teachers. How a “good guy with a gun” would have stopped this. You mindless fucking idiots. The very scenario you have been preaching happened and it made no fucking difference. For all the fucking machismo and bluster you spew, when the moment of truth came, your good guy with a gun hid for OVER FORTY-FIVE MINUTES and listened while kids were MURDERED. And he did NOTHING. Fuck you, and fuck your idiotic rhetoric. Coddling gun owners DOESN’T FUCKING WORK. Accept it like a goddamned adult and maybe, just maybe, we can prevent some of these kids from being buried before they graduate.
And before you say anything, FUCK THE COP’S SIDE OF THE STORY. That “we don’t know all sides” argument is complete bullshit. You could say – and people have said – that exact same nonsense about anything from a parking violation to rape. That’s vague, meaningless rhetoric designed to spread out the blame and mask the issue. There’s only one side I’m interested in, and that’s the side of the students and teachers being shot at. The scenario that the NRA-backed whores in our government and the morons who follow them have always wanted has happened. A “good guy” with a gun was there when an active shooter was killing people. And make no mistake, they WANTED this scenario. It was their chance to show the liberal snowflakes what a real man with a gun could do when faced with a shooter. Only, despite all their chest pounding and swagger, it didn’t turn out like they said. A good guy with a gun didn’t stop the bad guy with the gun. The good guy with the gun was a fucking coward, and despite his training as a law enforcement officer, he hid behind a wall and listened to screams and gunshots while high school kids and teachers were murdered. So don’t try to feed me your horseshit about “sides.” You can’t expect a murderer to be morally accountable. That’s fucking idiotic. And apparently we can’t count on “good guys with guns” either. This stupid, cartoon fantasy these people have concocted IS NOT REAL. And I’m done with people who refused to admit when their bullshit doesn’t work.
Accountability means nothing in this situation. It doesn’t. Accountability is only measured after the fact. I don’t want to wait until a few dozen more kids, or movie goers, or church parishioners, or shoppers, or what have you, are murdered so we can examine the situation and see who’s to blame. People have been behaving selfishly and without accountability for the entirety of human history. That’s why we’ve ALWAYS needed laws and restrictions. Because people cannot be trusted with absolute freedom. Society cannot exist with absolute freedom. It doesn’t work. And we here in America have shown time and again that we cannot rely on our fellow citizens to responsibly handle the freedom to own military weaponry. The frequency of mass shootings has increased right along with the ease of obtaining military weapons. Because the weapons make mass murder easier. If we made grenades as easy to get as assault rifles, people would start throwing those into schools. We have decided that grenades are not the kind of mass murder weapon we’re comfortable with. But machine guns are fine, so we kill people with those. They are the tools of easy murder, and they have to go.