Oklahoma high school principal 'saved kids' lives' by tackling gunman while being shot in the leg, police chief says

Certified bad mother right there

As a comparison to this hero, we should also continuously publish the names of the sacks of shit Uvalde cops in the hope that they never have another day of peace in their miserable lives.

let’s name all the highways after this hero

My principal died this same way. Heroes in a broken nation

And he has more courage than all the cops in Texas. I'm glad he prevented another Uvalde.

His name should be in the title of the post. Mr Moore is a hero.

Appropriate considering he'd be eligible for at least a Purple Heart.

Maybe he could go give them a training seminar about how not to do everything wrong?

I wonder how many future people will try to do this knowing that the police may not be coming quickly to actually help.

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1 gun less, injured principal vs 300 cops with guns

His training is more likely in spotting the threat and crowd management, the decision to throw himself on the dickhead is all him. Pretty sure there's no school policy to meat shield yourself for kids, but there is a moral imperative. I'm actually surprised he was hit in the leg rather than the massive balls he's gotta have.

And get paid less than a living wage in return for risking their life.

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun Is a certified educator with swat training -America

This is my feeling about this. Props to this man, but why are we here to this point with it

Well our police won't do it so someone has to step up

I wish their so called "god" could stop sending shooters to schools but I guess it is against some inter dimensional rule book for omnipotent beings and he had 2 warnings from earlier mistakes and can not do shit about it..

Thats insane.

What’s more funny is that there are companies who prey on environments, such as school, to employ their militaristic training  response to approaching gunmen. I worked in a movie theater and they had gave these psycho ex-cops the stage to teach leaders, within the company, how to handle gunmen; while basically all other employees never received the training😭 Edit: words. Punctuation. 

hey man, gun company shareholders need more money.

Instead of spending all this money on chasing immigrants and foreign wars, it would be nice if we could put the money toward security for our schools. Not "security" but real security.

Accidental Ghenkis Khan.

Well that's not something I would have ever thought I'd read in my life. When I was a kid the real threats at school were earthquakes and fires and our teachers taught us how to deal with them. Not gunmen.

I think when he is rushing the gun, he thought he was gonna to get shot multiple times too

I have not shot at another human (nor do I want to, I should add) but I HAVE been deer hunting haha.  The adrenaline rush I felt after making the shot was crazy. I couldn't work the bolt on my rifle because my hands were shaking so violently.  Without a LOT of training, not just to familiarize yourself with your weapon but also to cope with the insane involuntary fight or flight response your body activates, it's nearly impossible to make simple rational decisions, let alone do a task.  All this to say - it's not surprising to me that the shooter wasn't able to respond to the principal bull-rushing him.  It's also why I am VERY skeptical of the "good guy with a gun" thing. Simply having a gun is next to useless without extensive, intense training. Most good guys with guns would be completely worthless in any real crisis. 

I often think how lucky I am that Australian politicians and citizens said we don’t want guns freely available to prevent out students, teachers, principals and general public needing training to avoid be murdered by someone who walked into a shop like Walmart and bought a firearm. And yes we still have gun violence, people can still own guns but the incidents are vastly less than the USA. (even looking at it per capita)

>I often think about how fortunate we are as a society that most of these shooters are dumb kids who don't know what they're doing Do you not see the problem here? That these happen with such regularity is an enormous misfortune in your society. The USA is the only place where this happens with a frequency that they're barely reported on anymore. American society is blighted with these events. It's misfortune whichever way you look at it. There's nothing fortunate about the situation at all.

I don’t think that takes away from the courage. To put your life in the line on mere luck takes balls.

Didn't get his hands locked on the double-leg but continued driving, right into half guard. Good stuff.

I wonder that sometimes, too.

I was in a situation like this and I basically froze trying to mentally figure out the best solution. My brain was like "should I pick up a chair, would doing something put other people in danger etc.." It's hard to remember all my thoughts and I wasn't even dealing with a gunman.

As a (former) teacher, I wouldn't stop to think for even a second. Don't get me wrong, I highly doubt I would be that brave I would be in a situation with other adults, but the instinct to protect children you care about is one helluva drug. Like, I am NOT a fan of blood, but when your student gets hurt at recess, it doesn't even occur to you that they're bleeding all over your brand new white shirt is covered in blood until after they're safe.

Well if you live in America, you got good odds you'll find out one day!

Cops only care about their pensions, their "Thin Blue Line" nonsense, and being able to use qualified immunity to beat someone.

Makes me wonder what the 2A people care about. 

They are definitely not there to serve or protect, nor legally obligated to.

And fire him without any retirement or pension.

I wish that was not a possibility...

Yes. You only hear about the ones with significant casualty numbers. A principal getting injured barely breaks local news. Source: principal in my district was also shot by a disgruntled former student several years ago, no one outside the district cared.

Whatever kid disrespecting this principal would get their lesson from other kids

Because it's followed by "police chief says," indicating it's a quote.

Because that’s the only part of the actual quote used word for word, and the rest of the words around it are a headline written by an editor.

Because they're directly quoting what the police chief said when interviewed in regards to the action the principle took. It's the proper use of them and not sarcastic usage people often use it for.

Are you “sure” about “that”?

It’s a quotation. So you use quotes.

This all went so well.

They are quoting Shakespeare.

Seriously, what do you think quotation marks are for?? 

I thought it was going to be another article about teachers needing to report trans kids or something like that.

The gumman is a 20 year old

Knock on wood…

I'm not religious, but the theological answer is humanity's free will.

Much like ICE, they’re cowards who got for the easy targets.