Editorial: Don’t expect teachers to be substitute police officers when the shooting starts

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    Editorial: Don’t expect teachers to be substitute police officers when the shooting starts

    Teachers are trained to elevate young minds, not to gun down people wielding assault weapons who burst into their classroom intent on mass murder. It’s the job of police, who are trained and protected with body armor, to confront and stop dangerous people. But it was hard to tell that from the officers in Uvalde, Texas, who dithered outside a classroom at Robb Elementary School for more than an hour rather than storm the door and stop the slaughter going on inside. Could they have saved any of the 19 children and two teachers killed if they had acted earlier, ...


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