The Different Drummer Wrote:
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> “To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good
> guy with a gun.”
> - Wayne LaPierre
>
> While others struggled to flee the Borderline Bar
> and Grill, Ventura County Sergeant Ron Helus and a
> still unnamed California Highway Patrol officer
> ran towards danger. As Ventura County Sheriff Bill
> Ayub told reporters: “Both Sgt. Helus and the
> CHP officer knowingly and willingly went into what
> can only be described as a combat situation,
> risking their own lives to save many others”.
> The two officers were the ultimate good guys with
> guns; Helus was a 29-year veteran of the Ventura
> County Sheriff’s Office and the CHP officer was
> a nine-year veteran of the CHP and had a military
> background. At the end of the encounter with a
> mass-murderer, the CHP officer pulled Helus’
> dying body out of the building. The coroner later
> revealed that it was his gun that likely delivered
> the bullet that ultimately ended Helus’ life.
> Neither police officer managed to hit the
> shooter.
>
> To this day, the NRA and their allies still try to
> demonize the police officers who did not rush into
> the Parkland Shooting with guns blazing. While it
> is easy to armchair quarterback and fantasize that
> they could have easily walked into the school and
> instantaneously stopped the massacre, those
> officers also knew that the chaos enveloping the
> situation could also mean that what happened at
> the Borderline was also a possibility. Given the
> number of children flowing from the school was
> much higher than those in attendance at the
> Borderline, the chances are that they were the
> ones who could have been killed in friendly fire.
>
> If Trump ever gets his way and teachers are given
> concealed permits so that they can carry guns in
> the classroom, the danger will increase. The CHP
> officer entered the Borderline with Sergent Helus
> and in the confusion still accidentally shot him.
> How will officers responding to a school shooting
> know how to tell the difference between the active
> shooter and a teacher? How will a teacher know
> that the flash from a gun is being held by the
> shooter or a police officer? How many children
> will be killed in the crossfire?
>
> Recent headlines also provide answers to these
> questions. Jemel Roberson was an aspiring police
> officer who was working as an armed security guard
> at Manny’s Blue Room Bar. He apprehended a
> shooting suspect at the bar and held him at
> gunpoint for the police. Seeing the good guy with
> a gun, a responding officer shot him. Roberson is
> now dead.
>
>
> Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. was also killed by
> the police. According to the first telling of the
> story of a shooting at the Riverchase Galleria on
> Thanksgiving, Bradford was a shooter who “was
> confronted by officers as he tried to flee...and a
> Hoover police officer fatally shot him.”
> However, further investigation showed that the man
> shot by police “was not, in fact, the gunman and
> that the true gunman remained on the loose.”
> Bradford’s family says that he was licensed to
> carry a firearm and that had rushed into the mall
> to protect shoppers. Perhaps Mayor Frank V.
> Brocato described the situation the best: “You
> just don’t bring guns into a crowded mall.”
> That should apply even if you are a good guy with
> a gun.
>
> “The US Naval Postgraduate School Center for
> Homeland Defense and Security counted 94 school
> shooting incidents in 2018, a near 60% increase on
> the previous high, 59, an unwanted record set in
> 2006.” While the gun manufacturers who fund the
> NRA would like us to believe that the only way to
> end the senseless killing of our students is to
> put more guns on the streets, this is a strategy
> that has not been working. It is time for them to
> stop demonizing the victims of these tragedies and
> work towards common sense gun control that
> protects our children. Surely our Founding Fathers
> did not write the Second Amendment with the
> thought that innocent lives are expendable.
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> The article with complete annotations can be found
> at
>
https://medium.com/@ChangeTheLAUSD/the-nra-misses-
> the-target-with-their-good-guy-with-a-gun-strategy
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