Florida deputy who cowered behind a barrier while kids were being killed isn't a coward, eh?

Scot Peterson, the Parkland school's armed school guard who failed to guard the school while children and staff were being murdered by a 19-year-old while he cowered behind a barrier waiting for things to cool down, is not a coward just because he cowered and failed to do his job, says his delusional lawyer.

Peterson was supposed to engage the shooter as quickly as possible to save lives, but he stayed outside.

One of the survivors, David Hogg, who has been appearing on TV over and over to speak out against guns rather than the people who kill with guns, said that cops don't want to face down AR-15s, and he understands why Peterson was afraid to go into the school and do that.

"Who wants to go down the barrel of an AR-15, even with a Glock?" he said.

I wonder how Peterson could know the shooter was using an AR-15. The Colt AR-15 fires a .223 Remington or 5.56 NATO round. But so does a bunch of other firearms such as:

Bushmaster ACR rifle, Kel-Tec SU-16 series semi-auto rifle; Saiga 223 semi-auto rifle; Remington Model 7615 Police Patrol Rifle; Remington Model 700 series bolt-action rifle; Ruger Mini-14 semi-auto rifle; Steyr Scout series bolt-action rifle; Winchester Model 70 series bolt-action rifle; Volquartsen Evolution autoloading varmint rifle; Bushmaster Firearms International#Carbon 15 semi-automatic carbon-polymer-based AR-15 rifle.

And this list doesn't even include international military weapons, which is far more extensive.

So while teenage survivors of school shootings can say whatever they want to say without impunity or challenge of thought, David Hogg doesn't know what he's talking about, and even if he did, Peterson signed up for the job and failed to perform. And some of Hogg's fellow students who were killed might have been saved by a braver deputy.

Peterson's lawyer said that he acted appropriately but that's what his lawyer would have to say to defend the coward.


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