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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
Of course if the armed guard had not been there, and the shooter had killed a whole bunch of kids, it would be a very big story....
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I think we might be giving the armed guard too much credit here.
This might be a matter of it being too early to get accurate information from news sources, but I read an article today that indicated the armed security guard disarmed and took the shooter into custody "minutes" after the shooting.
The shooter was disarmed and taken into custody minutes after the incident by an off-duty Atlanta police officer, Turner said. He said the off-duty police officer, who was armed, works at Price Middle School as a so-called resource officer, providing security.
From this report it seems the shooting was done and over with by the time the armed guard was able to figure out what happened, locate the suspect, and take him into custody. (
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I think we watch a lot of TV and we just assume this armed guard came sailing into the situation with bullets still flying and did some magic panda kung fu shit and knocked the handgun out of his arm. I think what really happened is the shooter fired his shots, and then fled and hid.
But still kudos to the cop because he most likely has more balls than most of us - approaching an armed gunman after a shootout.
Also, what I found really interesting... Is that this school has metal detectors in place. While it seems the shooting took place outside, clearly the metal detectors didn't prevent anything.