Okay then, let me ask you a question. In this instance, do you believe the officers who arrived on the scene did the correct thing? Do you believe that waiting for more than 30 minutes while children were laying on the floor bleeding out was the best thing for the community, much less those kids in the school? Do you believe that more children probably died because of the actions from those officers on scene?
I'm pretty much a police band wagon kinda guy, but every last officer who didn't grab their vest and make entry deserves to never have another peaceful night's sleep.
You're asking me questions based on assumptions about information we don't have yet.
But I'll play along anyway since apparently people can't read and because I've made this clear at least three times already;
IF your information is correct, and he entered the school and started shooting kids they should have burnt the building down to get to him and end him before he hurt any more.
Whether that's what happened is as yet unknown. The other thing people seem to have trouble with is the nuance between an active shooter, keyword
ACTIVE and a barricaded suspect with hostages.
When searching a building like a school for an active shooter it's fairly straightforward, follow the path of destruction towards the gunfire and screams.
If he stops shooting and holes up in a room full of kids it turns into a barricaded hostage scenario. You have a real issue there because he's already done damage, has the ability to do more, but isn't currently.
If you try to force your way in, you're signaling that you're coming for him and he may start killing more kids. Why did he stop in the first place? Is he out of ammo? Gun jam? Remorse? A lot of these guys give up when confronted but if you give them the impression there's no way out and he shoots four more while you breach the door to kill him is that a good play if he's contemplating giving up?
I'd like to see them all shot into a slushy puddle but not bad enough to risk having to tell some 6yr olds mom I got her kid killed because I tried to force my way in and kill him instead of letting him surrender.
How many internet bad asses have ever kicked a door? It ain't like the movies, especially a solid core school door. You get a half dozen more kids killed because you're such a tough guy you can't stop and reassess when the shooting stops... go ahead and put the gun in your own mouth when it's over because the guilt of that shit will eat you alive.
All the questions about kids bleeding and dying, I guarantee they didn't know at the time. That's no different than him standing there killing more, right? You need to get in and render aid. That's again ASSUMING you know there are dead/dying kids in the room which they almost certainly did not. If they did and didn't go in, I'd call that a major fuckup. You can't standby and allow injured children to slowly die unless there's some HUGE exigent circumstance like a risk of greater loss of life during the attempt for some reason.
But it's another interesting question isn't it, you can't bring anyone back from the dead. Is it worth risking the lives of who's left if he's talking to you and you might be able to get him to surrender? All the faggot billy badass assholes on here talking about what they'd do sound real tough when it's not their kids life in the balance.
Sometimes it's just a shit sandwich no matter what and the goal becomes, "we're fucked he already killed a couple kids how can we get him while keeping him from killing the least amount possible before we do because we can't get him before he kills any..."
There's a saying in LE, time is on our side, that's almost universally true UNLESS people are hurt/dying and who on that shit sandwich of a call knew what and when will determine whether they did the best they could with a shitshow of a situation or if they fucked up royally.
We. Don't. Know. Yet...