I'm not sure if scapegoat is the right word... It's his job to protect the kids... Seems to me that either he stops the shooter, or dies from the shooter... either way, he would be a hero, not a scapegoat...

sure they are going to use him as a person to blame ...

Honestly to die for just being a hero ... when he had know other means to protect himself ... that is suicide... and he new that ... now that is if he was carrying a pistol... up against a automatic weapon ...


its like saying don"t bring a knife ...to a gun fight ...

I'm not sure if scapegoat is the right word... It's his job to protect the kids... Seems to me that either he stops the shooter, or dies from the shooter... either way, he would be a hero, not a scapegoat...

well his years of training with that pistol vs that kids first or second time picking up that auto...it was even, he had a good chance to not die...they train all the time with their pistols...

This is what the public thought he should do, stay fight or die.

He will be looked Down on now. Sad

I say we agree to disagree Moe ... since we really don't know all of the circumstances ... some thought this was a fire drill ... and they shut all the doors... and with kids running out and if he ran in ... he would not know who was who until he came right on up to the shooter ... their would have been know chance practice or not different guns are just different guns he would have had to have a clean shot ... personally I do not believe that could have happened with all the confusion ... until we learn more ... but again we don't know how much that sheriff had for security for that whole school ... they where also saying there was a delay in time on the films you where watching on tv ... I still think they had to put the blame on him ... so as for others not to take any blame ... but who the h*ll knows ...

me personally, I would start the finger pointing at him..then the sheriff, then the FBI... They all had years of accumlative evidence that he was someone who needed help...

and he resigns...

Honestly ... did Peterson have any back up and could he call for any...at this time in or out of the school was this part of his duty for surveillance in the school a direct connection to the police ... what was the Sheriff Officer carrying ... more then likely a pistol...


so people believe they want a man to walk in and try and save these kids with a pistol ... and going against a automatic weapon ... this would have done nothing to help the children ... an more then likely all the doors where locked to even try and get in to the office ...

So the shooter would see him and gun him down and went on with the killing spree he went there for ... + there was so much confusion with these kids running out believing this was a fire drill ... like thought to begin with ... this has been a issue with guns... you see the police carrying automatic weapons ... and people get freaked out becouse of ... but they more then likely are up against automatic weapons on the city streets... when there is heavy violence...



I personally would not have blamed this officer... which is being used as a scapegoat ... for not having a better security system in place for him and the children ... in that school ...

may those children rest in peace ... very sorry to hear

I think its partly because it doesnt bode well for those who will be pushing for 'armed' protection at school, where this school had such protection and still saw 17 deaths

I also agree that someone in a mass shooter situation, armed or not, may not be as prepared and calm as people assume they will or should be, the same reason fearful police shoot unarmed suspects, in life and death situations, things are not always gonna happen as one 'prepared' for in some simulation.

well his years of training with that pistol vs that kids first or second time picking up that auto...it was even, he had a good chance to not die...they train all the time with their pistols...

I heard and your right ... but I am still going to push for more security's in schools ... not just one sheriff to fight a battle with a automatic weapon ... that is not security ... all schools need a system put in place ... we have to remember this seems to start as a fire drill ... not a mass shooter ... lots of confusion ...



thanks for your input ... got to go have a good one ...

isn't that his whole job, to be prepared for anything? Why else is he there? They're trained to be prepared for anything, that's the polices job...look at it like a pilot, they might go their whole career without an incident, but all their training and expertise is only needed that one time when something does go wrong, and they save all the lives on that plane, because that's what they train so hard for... The sheriff's deputies job is to protect and save lives... Maybe he did by doing whatever it was he was doing, but he didn't stop Innocents lives being taken...

I dont know what HE was 'trained for' or what HIS job position responsibilities were. And again, a persons job is not always ALL encompassing, it is usually tasks WITHIN REASON. Like a doctor will not ALWAYS have training to assess EVERY illness when it is something foreign to MOST doctors.

A pilot is quite different, they save themselves, they save everyone else, they dont save everyone else, they die along with. This was not a situation where living meant that others would live, as in a pilot. Pilots have self preservation in mind like anyone else, it is a benefit that their travelers fate happens to be tied to them living.

This man lived and others died. and that is tragic. But it would be equally tragic if this man died knowing he would not be able to keep anyone else alive by doing so, and others STILL died. It would be tragic for HIS loved ones.

Even if the job is 'protect and save lives' dying without a plan that ties into saving life because one is 'expected' to go on and die a 'hero', would have done neither.

So let me ask you this- if the police are to scared to help, then how will gun control ever work? Isn't that the whole premis of gun control? The police will protect you? You just said they won't, so our undeniable right to life is in jeopardy... He had a gun, and to scared to use it...poor kids put trust and faith in him for protection, and 17 of them died for that ill gained trust...

oh, and by the way, this was a 'school resource officer', not a sheriff or deputy of anything, its a bit less training and experience than sheriffs office or deputy might be.

just a tidbit of clarification