# Trump said he would have run in Parkland to fight off the shooter **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-said-he-would-have-run-in-parkland-to-fight-off-the-shooter/809681 "2018-02-27T18:07:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-said-he-would-have-run-in-parkland-to-fight-off-the-shooter/809681/21 "2018-02-28T14:42:13Z")
That’s Trump for you. We all know he would NOT do this, but of course he has to say that he would. Both of those things are spectacularly non-presidential. That is to say, any decent president would actually help out in an emergency and no decent president would brag about it, especially when he didn’t actually do it. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-said-he-would-have-run-in-parkland-to-fight-off-the-shooter/809681/22 "2018-02-28T14:48:34Z")
Sorry if this is a hijack, but I’ve seen Corey Booker mentioned a few times as someone who actually _would_ do this. What’s the story there? ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-said-he-would-have-run-in-parkland-to-fight-off-the-shooter/809681/23 "2018-02-28T14:58:04Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Sorry if this is a hijack, but I’ve seen Corey Booker mentioned a few times as someone who actually _would_ do this. What’s the story there? [Cory Booker Rescues A Freezing Dog and 9 Other Things He Has Saved](https://www.thedailybeast.com/cory-booker-rescues-a-freezing-dog-and-9-other-things-he-has-saved) An excerpt: > [@The Daily Beast](#): > > After returning home last April from running the city, Booker discovered his neighbor’s home was on fire. Promptly, he darted into the building, found the woman who was living there, and “just grabbed her and whipped her out of the bed,” he said, as America swooned. He suffered second-degree burns on his hand, but this is Cory Booker and of course that ain’t no thang. “Yesterday all my problems were really big to me,” he said the next day. “Today things feel a lot more clear.” Several other items listed in the article reflect well on him as someone who feels a strong sense of duty to others, but that’s the one situation that involved significant personal risk (and in fact did result in some injury). I didn’t see anything about his actual or hypothetical response to an active shooter, but the idea of him being willing to rush in is much more plausible than Trump doing so. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-said-he-would-have-run-in-parkland-to-fight-off-the-shooter/809681/24 "2018-02-28T16:35:55Z")
If the shooter was in the girls’ locker room, he might walk in, after the shooter leaves. Would Cadet Bone Spurs take him on unarmed? Ha. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-said-he-would-have-run-in-parkland-to-fight-off-the-shooter/809681/25 "2018-02-28T17:25:47Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > [Cory Booker Rescues A Freezing Dog and 9 Other Things He Has Saved](https://www.thedailybeast.com/cory-booker-rescues-a-freezing-dog-and-9-other-things-he-has-saved) > > An excerpt: > > Several other items listed in the article reflect well on him as someone who feels a strong sense of duty to others, but that’s the one situation that involved significant personal risk (and in fact did result in some injury). I didn’t see anything about his actual or hypothetical response to an active shooter, but the idea of him being willing to rush in is much more plausible than Trump doing so. Running into a burning building to save your neighbour is good and all, but it pales in comparison to his “99 problems” tweet during Hurricane Sandy. ---
**Author:** ![AndyLee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AndyLee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyLee)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-said-he-would-have-run-in-parkland-to-fight-off-the-shooter/809681/26 "2018-03-02T13:48:14Z")
I guess when you are surrounded by secret service agents, it’s a good idea. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-said-he-would-have-run-in-parkland-to-fight-off-the-shooter/809681/27 "2018-03-02T21:13:37Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > At least Trump seems to be condemning the shooter. That’s progress. A few months ago, he would have said we should be considering the points of view of both sides. That may be the saddest thing about this…of course, if it weren’t a primarily white upper class school in Florida, but instead was a school full of brown people with a white shooter, we might want to consider both sides…☹ ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-said-he-would-have-run-in-parkland-to-fight-off-the-shooter/809681/28 "2018-03-02T22:00:40Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > Run in, with those bone spurs? Yeah, if it wasn’t for those bone spurs, he would have gone to Nam and killed all those VC all by himself. When I heard that he said that, my response was “make my day.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-said-he-would-have-run-in-parkland-to-fight-off-the-shooter/809681.md?page=1)