Officers inside Robb Elementary had rifles, body armor and ballistic shields but they spent 77 minutes waiting as the gunman killed 19 children and two adults.
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But it wasn’t until 77 minutes after the 18-year-old killer entered the school that a tactical team breached"If you attack the shooter, you disrupt the shooter’s plan, and the shooter has to defend himself," Dave Katz, a former special agent withand now the CEO of Global Security Group, told Fox News Digital."And if the shooter is shooting at you, that is better than having the shooter attack children.
More robust Level III shields would have protected the officers, he said, but even without them, they should have attacked the gunman. He said that the first officers on scene had sufficient numbers and firearms to have stopped the gunman within three minutes. "The only thing stopping the hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children," McCraw said at the hearing."The officers had weapons; the children had none. The officers had body armor; the children had none. The officers had training; the subject had none.
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