Parkland Had an Armed Security Guard-He Couldn’t Stop the Massacre
The Republican solution to mass murder in our schools is to have more armed security guards and armed teachers in our schools. The solution they propose to gun violence in schools is MORE GUNS IN SCHOOLS. But, is that the solution?
How much time would armed security guards and/or armed
teachers have to respond to an unexpected attack? Here is what we learned at Parkland.
According to the Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel,
Parkland High School had an armed security guard. It did not help. Kids still died.
“He was on campus and he was armed,” Israel
said. “At this point, the only thing I can tell you definitively is he never
encountered Cruz.”
Here is the timeline of what happened at Parkland according
to Time
2:21 p.m.
The shooter allegedly
enters the school and takes his AR-15 out of a case. He begins shooting into
three classrooms, returning to two of them, shot into another classroom, then
shot into two more classrooms before dropping his rifle.
2:28 p.m.
The suspect is believed to have
run outside, mixing in with students who were running away from the scene.
Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people and wounded 14 in JUST 7
MINUTES.
According to Quora, the average owner of an AR15 uses a
30-round magazine.
“For an average
shooter, you’re talking about a top speed of about two shots per second, which
means you’re emptying a mag in 15 seconds. Reloading takes maybe four seconds,
so it’s 19 seconds to empty a mag and recharge. So the effective rate is about
90 rounds per minute, not counting the time it takes to aim.”
Cruz easily could have fired 630 rounds (90 x 7 minutes) in
the time he was in Parkland. AND, the
security guard at Parkland with a gun had no warning a mass murderer was about
to enter the school.
Bottom Line: No matter how many “good guys with guns” were
in Parkland that day, the chances are they would not have had time to stop
Cruz.
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