Navy Yard: Swat team 'stood down' at mass shooting scene
If this story is true it makes the responders at Columbine High School look like Seal Team 6.
About 8:15 local time (12:15 GMT), Alexis entered Building 197, headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command, which builds and maintains ships and submarines for the Navy, and opened fire....
[A] highly trained and heavily armed four-man Containment and Emergency Response Team (Cert) was near the Navy Yard when the initial report of an active shooter came in about 8:20 local time. The officers, wearing full tactical gear and armed with HK-416 assault weapons, arrived outside Building 197 a few minutes later....
When the Capitol Police team radioed their superiors, they were told by a watch commander to leave the scene.
The gunman, Aaron Alexis, was reported killed after 09:00.
From the story, it appears that the decision makers let Alexis run his guns unabated for 40 minutes in a "gun-free zone"...
Please excuse me for shouting, but THE BEST HOMELAND SECURITY IS THE ARMED CITIZEN.
-fl