I get a weekly newspaper, The Navy Times, and this week it had the timeline of what happened during the Navy Yard shooting last year. Here it is;
0808: Shooter enters Bldg 197 and enters restroom
0816: Shooter exits restroom with shotgun (now called a sawed off shotgun) and shoots first person
0816: First 911 call sent by a man who watched the shooter kill a co-worker
0821: First base Police arrive on scene and enter building (as part of this response the base was put on lock down significantly slowing other police from entering base to assist)
~0830: Shooter kills base Police on security guard duty in Bldg 197 and takes his sidearm (most likely a Beretta M9 though possibly a Glock G19 or G17)
0835: Last victim is shot and killed by shooter
0840: On-scene commander (Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)) sends in teams of police (military, civilian military police, and MPD)
0912: Shooter found by one of the teams. Shooter shoots one of the team members with the sidearm taken from the dead police officer, the bullet travels through both legs.
0925: Shooter has final shootout with police, shooting one police officer in the chest (protected by a ballistic vest) and is shot and killed
This timeline is another example of the ludicrousness of preventing people from having firearms for protection. The shooter was uncontested for 5 minutes, shooting people, before police arrived and it was another hour before the police found him. There were many people who could see the shooter but were unable to do anything except hide and hope the shooter did not find them.
Will politicians notice this and change the law. Well, they will but their answer is to ensure we are disarmed.
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