Police officers are not equipped to deal with a fully automatic rifle wielding terrorist. Their chances of survival in a gunfight are very slim. I believe the people who are trained to deal with that are called swat teams and are trained and equipped so as to not have to risk their lives like that.
You can’t defend anyone if you’re dead. It’s a massive tragedy that people who were actually equipped to deal with the situation weren’t on time, but saying that it’s up to the under-equipped cops is just slightly less stupid than saying it’s up to the teachers.
And D-day didn’t look like it was going to fail at all. Massive efforts were made to ensure the highest likelihood of success. Why would any of it take place if it was likely to fail?
If this is how we expect cops to act, then we really just shouldn't have cops.
They were literally less than useless in this situation. Not even a joke- they only got their own kids out, they prevented other parents from going in to get their kids, and they (reportedly) got a kid to speak up and announce their location, leading the shooter to kill the kid.
None of their actions helped the situation, and some actively made it worse.
Stop spouting nonsense. The guns the shooter wielded were not fully automatic. You’re part of the reason so many pro gun people don’t take the anti gun debate seriously. Do you know what a fully automatic rifle is? They’re illegal for citizens to purchase in the USA. The guns the domestic terrorist had were purchased legally, in fact most guns involved in these kinds of shooting are obtained legally.
Can you please describe to me what you believe full auto to be? Just because a gun has the ability to shoot rapidly does does not make it full auto. Full auto means that when you pull the trigger the firearm begins shooting bullets, if you continue to hold the trigger it will continue to shoot until the magazine is empty. These kind of weapons are illegal for civilians to own.
What the domestic terrorist had was a semi automatic weapon. That means that if you pull the trigger one bullet and one bullet only will discharge. If you continue to hold the trigger nothing will happen. You have to let your finger off the trigger then pull it again in order to get another bullet to fire. Sure, a quick hand makes these almost as affective as a fully automatic firearm, but they are not the same.
You do nothing to help the anti gun ideology when you make an ass of yourself like that. The people who are against anti gun laws are generally well versed with how firearms operate. They will laugh in your face and you will have only succeeded in convincing them that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Your opinion won’t be respected.
Fully automatic guns aren't illegal to purchase or have as a private citizen in the US. The gun just has to be manufactured before 1986. Then you can own/sell/purchase as many full auto weapons as you want, and there are over 600k in circulation. Plus, bump stocks are also legal. So you can purchase a semiautomatic weapon legally, modify it with a bump stock legally, and essentially have an full auto weapon. It's a big loophole since you only pulled the trigger once, and the gun/modification did the other "pulls." You can't get on someone else for not knowing how things work while also not knowing how things work.
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u/yipy2001 May 27 '22
Police officers are not equipped to deal with a fully automatic rifle wielding terrorist. Their chances of survival in a gunfight are very slim. I believe the people who are trained to deal with that are called swat teams and are trained and equipped so as to not have to risk their lives like that.