# It's happened again: A school shooting, this time in Maryland **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happened-again-a-school-shooting-this-time-in-maryland/810882 "2018-03-20T13:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 34
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happened-again-a-school-shooting-this-time-in-maryland/810882/34 "2018-03-20T19:57:38Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Which strawman told you that? > [@RTFirefly](#): > > We were? By whom? Can you be specific? (It’s easy to bullshit people via the passive voice. Try giving that sentence a subject.) Here you go. > [@Are there any ways to have stopped the Florida shooter from buying guns?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-ways-to-have-stopped-the-florida-shooter-from-buying-guns/809423/17): > > it is plain ridiculous to think one deputy chasing after such a school shooter with his service weapon is a good plan. It’s a wing-and-a-prayer plan, a certain-death plan, a no-other-options plan. It doesn’t matter who recommends it, we have SWAT for a reason. > [@Sheriff officer resigns after Florida Shooting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-officer-resigns-after-florida-shooting/809373/6): > > If a lone cop armed with a pistol and no body armor is supposed to rush in to engage a guy with an AR-15 or get branded a coward, all I can say is that these guys should get paid more. > [@Sheriff officer resigns after Florida Shooting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-officer-resigns-after-florida-shooting/809373/11): > > If he’d gone in alone, armed with a pistol and no body armor, perhaps he’d be a hero, probably a dead one. I don’t think _not_ acting heroically makes you a disgrace or a coward. It just makes you a normal human being. Nobody should be required or expected to undertake a suicide mission as part of their job. > [@Sheriff officer resigns after Florida Shooting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-officer-resigns-after-florida-shooting/809373/23): > > Nobody with 1/2 a brain can fault someone for not entering an unfamiliar building with possibly multiple shooters. > [@Sheriff officer resigns after Florida Shooting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-officer-resigns-after-florida-shooting/809373/118): > > > [@](#): > > > > Every moment he didn’t go in was more time for the killer to kill more victims. If Peterson went in, maybe Peterson would have been killed, but at least there was a \*chance \*he could nail the gunman and the shooting spree could be abruptly brought to an end > > Great idea, let’s spend the life of one person on a chance > [@Do you expect every cop to be a "hero"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-expect-every-cop-to-be-a-hero/809821/2): > > once someone breaks out the big guns, it’s SWAT time. A resource cop with his little pea shooter is just another casualty. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happened-again-a-school-shooting-this-time-in-maryland/810882)._