Carissa Potts hugs daughter Kaylee, 7, after leaving flowers at a memorial outside Santa Fe High School in Texas.
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SANTA FE, TEXAS — They, like so many others, thought they had taken the steps to avoid this.
The school district had an active-shooter plan, and two armed police officers walked the halls of the high school. School district leaders had even agreed last fall to eventually arm teachers and staff under the state’s school marshal program, one of the country’s most aggressive and controversial policies intended to get more guns into classrooms.
They thought they were a hardened target, part of what’s expected today of the American public high school in an age when school shootings occur with alarming frequency. And so a death toll of 10 was a tragic sign of failure and needing to do more, but also a sign, to some, that it could have been much worse.
“My first indication is that our policies and procedures worked,” J.R. “Rusty” Norman, president of […]
It is stupid for this article to say that not having an AR reduced the number of deaths. He had a pistol that could hold 19 rounds and be reloaded very quickly. The anti-gun cause hurts itself when is says obviously stupid things.
Sam — You are posting misinformation. “Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas says the gunman, Dimitrios Pagourtzis… used two firearms: a shotgun and .38 caliber revolver, both of which he got from his father.” .38 revolvers have a rotating cylinder with a six shot capacity, and are slow to reload.
He posted pictures of the pistol and knife on the web.
What he posted, and what he used are not the same thing.