I never claimed he said otherwise, did I?



With all due respect, Joel, I did read what he said. Perhaps you need to read what the report and I actually said and not what you think want to read?
He was guarding a group of children from the school - arguing that he would have stopped it happening if only he'd been in the right place at the right time is a nonsense argument, because his job isn't to just protect one child in on location.
His comments read to me like someone trying to make himself feel better about failing at something he was unlikely to ever succeed at, he doesn't offer a well thought out analysis here no matter how much you want it to be.


They were monitoring students in the “Smokers’ Pit,” a spot just to the northwest of campus in Clement Park where the students congregated to smoke cigarettes.
This hardly sounds as if the shooters would have randomly wandering through woods near the school but a group of kids who went to the same spot at the same time every day.



Sorry Joel, you seem to have trouble understanding what I've said, again. You are very good at reading what you want to argue against though, so kudos there.
Schools are busy environment with people constantly coming in and out of them carrying all sorts of packages and in the US a fraction of 1% suffer armed attacks each year or even each decade (century in fact). Someone coming in with an assault rifle looking for the armed guard is obviously going to have a good chance of getting the drop on an armed guard who has seen 100s of people come past him every day year after year - the simple fact is that humans settle into routine very quickly, let alone after years of the routine.



There were armed police on the base - much like an armed policeman at a high school, they aren't able to be everywhere at once.

Also "since guns were (inexplicably) prohibited at the military base". Really?
I can't be bothered to go look but I'm willing to bet there is an explanation