He never went in, Sheriffs Deputy only armed guard on campus during a deadly shooting in high school, quote never went into the building when the shooting was taking place. That was according to sheriff israel of Broward County who described how he felt as he watched the video of the deputy do absolutely nothing as the gunman killed 17 people. Devastated. Sick to my stomach. There are no words l i mean, these families lost their children. We lost coaches h ive been to the funerals. Ive been to the homes where they sit and shiver. Ive been to the vigils. Its just there are no words. Well, that deputy Scott Peterson, he resigned today. The irony this news coming on the same day that President Trump doubled down on his call to arm the nations teachers as a way to combat mass shootings
in schools. I think a concealed permit for having teachers and letting people know there are people in the building with a gun, you wont have, in my opinion, you wont have these shootings. Because these peop
he never went in, sheriffs deputy only armed guard on campus during a deadly shooting in high school, quote never went into the building when the shooting was taking place. that was according to sheriff israel of broward county who described how he felt as he watched the video of the deputy do absolutely nothing as the gunman killed 17 people. devastated. sick to my stomach. there are no words l i mean, these families lost their children. we lost coaches h i ve been to the funerals. i ve been to the homes where they sit and shiver. i ve been to the vigils. it s just there are no words. well, that deputy scott peterson, he resigned today. the irony this news coming on the same day that president trump doubled down on his call to arm the nation s teachers as a way to combat mass shootings
what are you learning tonight about what happened? reporter: it s an additional horrific turn in the narrative, jim. and, remember, just a couple of days ago that these families who lost their children wrl told by the fbi that they had received a tip that they had failed to act on. now on top of that, they are being told there was an armed officer, the school resource officer, a trained veteran sheriffs deputy in uniform with aside arm standing outside the building where the shootings are taking place, and that officer, scott peterson, did not do anything according to scott israel which is broward county sheriff. they said they are launching an investigation. asked for his resignation. instead he is it resigning and going into retirement. but it is a horrible turn of events. questions have been raised about scott peterson eversince the shooting on campus especially for the families who had lost children. now it appears the time that he was waiting outside, the only
in schools. i think a concealed permit for having teachers and letting people know there are people in the building with a gun, you won t have, in my opinion, you won t have these shootings. because these people with cowards. they won t walk into a school if 20% of the teachers have guns. it may be 10%. it may be 40%. and what i would recommend doing is the people that do carry, we give them a bonus. we give them a little bit of a bonus. so practically for free you have now made the school into a hardened target. well, let s think about that for a minute. there are roughly 3.5 million teachers in the united states today. that according to the department of education. 40% would mean 1.4 million teachers in this country would be armed under the president s plan. the idea sparked outrage immediately from stoneman douglas high school students to even republican senators. to arm every like to arm
we saw it in las vegas. what was a good guy going to do to stop shooting of 600 people when the guy was in hotel room hundreds of feet away? that s totally separate issue. i m talking about school shootings. what would happen in fort hood? i m glad you mentioned this. let me finish. fort hood, the u.s. naval facility in washington d.c. yard. the naval yard. plenty of examples. yes i know they don t have weapons. everybody has weapons and facility. what you are going to say. no, they don t have weapons. plenty of examples where people have armed weapons, and they are still not able to stop a bad person with a gun. so how do you want to protect schools? way to do it, the way other countries do it, the way they don t have mass shootings, they don t have the access to guns that we do. they don t pal lou people who have mental issues to have access to guns. we don t here either.