While the shooting was happening,
an armed deputy stayed outside the school doing nothing.
And that's heartbreaking.
And look, I don't know
why that deputy failed to enter the school.
I mean, personally, I wouldn't go into a high school,
but period. Yeah.
Like, one time I gave a motivational speech
at a high school, and a bunch of ninth graders
called me "Apartheid McDimples."
It was brutal.
So I'm never going back.
But look, you have to admit,
what this deputy did was inexcusable.
He just blew off the basic purpose of his job.
And when people found this out,
they didn't wait four minutes to go in on him.
There's no one I talk to that is not disgusted
that the local sheriff's deputy that was there
did not go in and kill that individual.
An armed guard appears
to have really, really failed to do his job.
The sheriff has to go. He has to resign.
The deputy's actions were unconscionable.
Damn, that was harsh-- that was like hearing
the white people version of "(bleep) the Police."
(laughter)
And this time, it's not... it's not enough
just to deal with law enforcement's bad apples, no.
Some people want to clean house,
starting at the top with Sheriff Scott Israel.
NEWSMAN: More than 70 Republican state lawmakers on Sunday
demanded Florida governor, Rick Scott, suspend Israel,
the same day Scott announced a state-run investigation
into the law enforcement response to the shooting.
Are you really not taking any responsibility
for the multiple red flags that were brought to the attention
of the Broward Sheriff's Office about this shooter
before the incident, whether it was people near him,
close to him, calling the police on him...
Jake, I could o... Jake, I could only take responsibility
for what I knew about.
I exercised my due diligence.
I've given amazing leadership to this agency.
-"Amazing leadership"? -I've work...
Yes, Jake.
(laughter)
"Amazing leadership"?
You could see Jake Tapper in his mind did a spit take.
He was like, "(blows raspberry) What?"
"Amazing leadership"? I'm sorry, but no.
Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans?
That was amazing leadership.
-Yeah. -(laugher, applause)
Denzel in Malcolm X?
That was amazing leadership.
(cheering, applause)
Denzel in Coach Carter?
That was Samuel L. Jackson. You're racist.
(laughter)
Look... it's clear that the deputy didn't do his job.
He was armed, he was at the school,
and he didn't help.
Now, for some people, this shows exactly why there's no point
in arming teachers.
Because if a trained officer didn't come to the rescue,
then how is Mrs. Flenderson gonna do any better?
But for others, for others, the deputy failing to go in
shows exactly why you need teachers to be strapped.
A lot of us have said you need to arm teachers,
carry and conceal, because you can't count on the prevention
or that you're gonna catch 'em every time.
A security guard doesn't know the children,
doesn't love the children.
This man standing outside of... the school the other day
doesn't love the children,
probably doesn't know the children.
The teachers love their children.
They love their pupils. They love their students.
So what we need is someone who loves high school kids
and knows their way around guns.
Wait a second. I know just the guy.
-Yeah. -(laughter)
What? The dude needs a job!
(applause)
Can't work at the mall. Come on.
Here's what frustrates me in this gun violence discussion.
People make it seem like there's only one problem
and only one solution.
"It's the guns." "No, it's the cops."
Maybe it's both. Maybe it's both.
Like, there are some problems
with more than one factor to them.
You know? Like, it's, "Yes, she met someone more attractive,
but you're also an asshole. Yeah."
So you have to work on both of those factors,
by becoming a nicer person and by disfiguring your rival.
All right? It's the same with school shootings.
Maybe with better training, the deputy would have known
how to go into the situation
while still keeping himself relatively safe.
But maybe with better gun laws,
once the deputy did go into the school,
he wouldn't have to face a teenager with an AR-15.
Yeah. There's no...
-(applause, cheering) -one solution.
There's no one solution that'll solve all mass shootings.
Except... for this one solution.
I got to watch some deputy sheriffs
performing this weekend.
They weren't exactly, uh...
medal of honor winners, all right?
You know, I really believe-- you don't know until you're tested--
but I think I... I really believe I'd run in there
even if I didn't have a weapon.
(audience reacts)
I like that he's honest enough to say,
"Look, I-I haven't tested this. Uh...
(laughter)
"But I think, uh, yeah, I think I would run in.
"Without a weapon, yeah. Yeah, I think I would run in.
I think I would. I think I would."
To be fair, to be fair,
if Donald Trump ran into a school during a shooting,
I do believe he would actually stop the shooting, yeah.
Because imagine you're a school shooter
and Donald Trump appears in the hallway,
how distracting would that be? He would just be like,
(mimics Trump): "That's right, it's me, Donald Trump.
"I don't have a gun, but what I do have
"is an amazing electoral college victory.
"They said I couldn't win.
"736 college-- but I did it, folks.
I did it. I did it so good."
(normal voice): Like, eight minutes later,
the police show up, Trump is still talking.
The kid is, like, what the hell is happening here?
It would work.
(cheers and applause)
But, like, but, like, for real, though? For real?
(mimics Trump): "I think I'd run in there
even if I didn't have a weapon."
(normal voice): Really? Yeah?
It would be ridiculous coming from anyone,
but especially from Trump.
He's gonna run in?
Yo, when Trump ran for president,
that was the first time he ran in his entire life.
Come on, man.
(cheers and applause)
No, you're telling me, you're telling me,
this guy is brave enough to run into an unarmed--
he's brave enough to run into a school shooting--
I know, really-- this guy?
Really?
The same guy, the same guy, who clung to a secret service agent
like he was the last life vest on the Titanic.
That guy? That guy?
Really, Trump cares so much about helping people
that he'd jump into the middle of a school shooting
with nothing but his fun-sized fists? Really?
That guy?
But, but he's also the same guy
who proudly tells this story:
TRUMP:
-Really? That guy? -(audience exclaims)
That guy was gonna run in and stop a school shooting?
Get the (bleep) out of here, man.