https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhplhhnvPQs&feature=youtu.be
This long take of a school shooting from the cop drama 19-2 leaves me a little confused. The cops keep saying they’re their to help the shooter, but the guy keeps shooting at them and making it very apparent that their type of help is the last thing that he wants. Maybe I’m looking at things from the eyes of a civilian and that’s why, but ‘helping’ the perpetrator doesn’t seem like it would be something that would be less of a concern than getting the other kids out and finding the person responsible before putting them down one way or another. Yes they’re kids but at the same time they’ve also become killers. You won’t find me saying kill them on sight unless there’s no other choice, but putting them down could mean just about anything.
The size of this high school would make the effort to find the shooter, or shooters, nearly impossible and almost nightmarish as they made their way along shooting students and causing carnage every step of the way. The trauma that this would inflict upon the other students and the officers assigned to bring the shooters down would be immense, not to mention that it might break at least one or more of the officers as they were attempting to diffuse the situation. One cannot even imagine the level of emotional, mental, and even physical stress that would be endured in such a moment. I get the feeling that you would almost be expecting a bullet at one second or the sight of another dead kid, and both would be unbearably painful.
Scenes such as this seem as though they’d be far more realistic in the event of a shooting, particularly if shooters are becoming more aware of how to move through a school while performing these heinous acts and how officers will react. There is no cold-blooded lone wolf detective that’s going to get the jump on them and force their hand or put them down with one well-placed round. The cops that respond are going to attempt to bargain with the shooter or talk them down thinking that they might be scared and confused and lashing out. The cold-blooded nature that such shooters go in with is enough it would seem to steel them for what they have planned to do and enable them to understand that the cops will not shoot them unless there’s no choice, and they certainly won’t risk a shot when there are hostages in the way.
That leaves a serious conundrum then. You can’t shoot when hostages are near, you can’t always talk them down, but you also can’t let them keep on killing people. So what in the world do you do? Surrounding the shooter until they see the light of reason and give up doesn’t seem all that likely as of late. Catching them with their guard down seems to be the trick, but that means that they’ve already done the deed and have gotten lazy or somehow allowed themselves to be caught. In any case the situation during any shooting usually seems to be that there is no easy way out, it’s bound to get messy.
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