Vincent Smith wasn’t in the office when a fellow Virginia Beach city employee opened fire there, ultimately killing 12 and wounding five in the carnage five weeks ago.
After getting notice of the shooting that afternoon in Building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center, Smith, 49, raced to the nearby emergency operations center, where he helped out until late in the night.
It was soon clear that although law enforcement arrived within two minutes of the report May 31 of an active shooter, the gunman had been able to move through offices and fire at fellow city employees without being confronted by another firearm.
Now, Smith, the city’s division manager for construction services, is taking action in hopes of preventing such a situation from occurring again.
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Good Luck Mr Smith ! Fortunately you're fighting an uphill battle !
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately !! ..my bad
ReplyDeleteOnly thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
ReplyDeleteUntil more people realize that is the reality, these things will continue.
Unfortunately, unless you have a cop on the premises, they do not prevent anything, they just show up for the body count afterwards-nature of the job. Had there been CCW's at all of the "mass shootings", the outcomes would have all been very different.
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