Must read regarding school safety

Eli Saslow of the Washington Post talks to Scot Peterson, the school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.

Maybe then, he said, 49 seconds would have been enough to do something. Maybe, he said, he would have left the wall and sprinted into the building. Maybe, he said, he would have known to run directly to the third floor, rather than clearing the first two floors. Maybe, he said, he would have located the shooter through the dust and smoke and fleeing students. Maybe, he said, he would have harnessed 20 years of training and steadied his gun on the target. Maybe, he said, his Glock would have proved enough to outgun an AR-15. 

“It was all so fast,” he said. “I couldn’t piece it all together.”