Plenty of them, almost all mass killings end with the perpetrator being shot by police or committing suicide.
Your continued use of the term machine gun exposes you as a clueless idiot. Cruz had an AR-15 which is a rifle. Shooting unarmed kids with a rifle from short range isnât difficult. Coming up against a cop armed with a Glock 22, who takes you by surprise, is a different proposition.
You are defending cowards here, which of course means you are a coward yourself, as like attracts like.
Whether he was expecting them or not, he wouldnât have stood a chance. Do you think the cops would just walk out in front of him? This was a lunatic teenager with a rifle, not a trained assassin.
So he wouldnât be âcaught by surpriseâ at all.
Most police in the US never draw their weapon in the course of a year. This didnât happen in South Central and I would doubt that local police had their best Wyatt Earp on duty at the high school. An AR-15 outguns a Glock or whatever handgun most days of the week.
âTaken by surpriseâ doesnât mean he had no expectation of encountering a cop. It means the cop had the advantage of surprising him, hopefully with a bullet, before he knows the cop is there. How frequently the average US cop draws his gun is irrelevant, they are all trained for this type of situation.
I am not suggesting a Glock could outgun an AR-15, but again the scenario isnât a western duel.
There is simply no excusing him, or them, not going in.
These nutjobs plan these shootings, itâs not an off-the-cuff decision, they expect and want to go out in a âblaze of gloryâ and the cops are part of that. Thereâs no surprise to it.
Itâs a rabbit-hole discussion anyway. More guns in schools is bonkers.