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Courage is a choice.
« on: March 05, 2018, 09:27:09 AM »
With all of the things we continue to learn about the Broward County Sheriff's Department's response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings, I thought that this column, which was linked to by the Active Response Training blog, would be appropriate to post here.

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Courage is a choice.

February 28, 2018
 
By the time you read this, I would be surprised if there are many in America, let alone among the readership here, who are not aware of the fact that, during the recent mass killing at a Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, several deputies of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, including at least one School Resource Officer (SRO)—whose primary duty, at least in theory, was to protect those young people of his community—stood outside, even as local municipal police officers moved into the building.

Initially, it was pretty quickly known that one deputy, the SRO, had never even attempted to enter the building, once the gunfire began. Quickly—and righteously—he was labeled a coward. Just as quickly however, more than a few notable people, across the Internet and media—including some with stellar combat records themselves—jumped in to the fray in his defense, pointing out such things as their experiences having seen other brave men finally run out of nerve, and etc.

My response to this is two-fold, as we will see below.

Rather quickly though, the news leaked out that it wasn’t just the SRO, but two or three other BCSO deputies besides, also stood outside, even after local municipal officers arrived on scene, and initiated entry into the building. Now, it was pointed out that perhaps, after all, it was simply that they were following department policy, to wait for SWAT in such instances. As more information comes to light, this does appear to be the case, along with a host of other egregious wrongdoings on the part of BCSO that—if they did not lead to this event, then, at the very least, contributed to it, and made the outcome far more gruesome than it might have been.

I am not going to waste a lot of time, effort, or bandwidth discussing the niðing behavior of the deputies. They are all cowards, and department policy be damned. You do not take the gifts—pay and benefits—of your community, in return for the expected duty of protecting them and—especially—their children, and then, at the moment the bell tolls for you, decide department policy and officer safety trumps those obligations. Doing so makes you an oathbreaker and a coward, by any reasonable definition.

It's good.  He really gets into the concept well.

https://mountainguerrilla.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/courage-is-a-choice/

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Re: Courage is a choice.
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2018, 11:26:05 AM »
The bottom line is the gubermint failed. From the politically correct school board to the sheriffs department to the FBI all of them need to be taken to task for the failures, not the NRA boogy man or gun owners or the AR15 rifle.

However the government individually or collectively can never accept blame or responsibility for their failures. It is always easier to put the blame elsewhere.
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