Absolutely no excuse for fleeing the scene

[moriah]

39. I'm still shocked at there being only one officer at the school.

A campus with 3000 kids? Obviously his job wasn't to be the primary security for the school, or if it was, they need some more funding. He's lost his job, is going to live with it the rest of his life, and according to history his part of law enforcement has been campus security for all but 5 of his 30+ years as a cop.

But even a coordinated armed security force might not have caught and shot the shooter, as the Broward County sheriff is saying he should have tried to do by himself, regardless. And we don't need to turn schools into armed campuses IMHO.

I know this seems like too moderate of a solution, but banning the sale and manufacture of high-capacity magazines, any form of ammunition or device designed to convert a weapon to bump fire or to belt feed (another common modification), with an eye to technology to trace ammunition sales, and a buy-back program for the magazines (which have a lower market value than the various rifles they go in) paid for by a small excise tax on ammunition sales is what I really think we need to start pushing hard for now. It *should* be attainable as a minimum, even if we want to start out bargaining for more.

If we can't convince them to give up the guns, they should see tbe sense in doing something that would limit the carnage.

Not "hardening" schools. Or expecting the one "good guy with a gun" to go sacrifice himself with little likelihood of success, even if of everyone at the school he was the one who we would expect to do it. The task expected was essentially martyrdom.