In the aftermath of the elementary school mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, a Central Florida sheriff made it very clear that if a shooter were even to attempt to attack a school in his county, ‘we will meet you with deadly force and we are going to kill you.’

Last Thursday, Florida’s Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno told reporters that anyone who decides to go “to one of our schools and present deadly force, we will meet you with deadly force and we are going to kill you.”

Marceno added:

“You don’t get to shoot our children, you don’t get to hurt our children. You bring deadly force in this county, we are going to kill you.”

Much of the media focus on the shooting has been helping Democrats advance their leftist gun control agenda and criticizing local law enforcement officials for their response to the incident which they have admitted was problematic.

Law enforcement in Texas has faced major scrutiny after the timeline revealed they delayed entering the school to stop the shooter.

A now-viral video clip is going rounds on social media wherein Florida Sheriff Carmine Marceno who directly warned those who would attack a school in his county.

Watch the video below:

Florida’s #lawandorder Sheriff Carmine Marceno responds to #Uvalde, TX school shooting:

You don’t get to shoot our children. You bring deadly force in this county, we are going to kill you. pic.twitter.com/bYVnNT5FSl

— Carmine Marceno – Florida’s Law and Order Sheriff (@SheriffLeeFL) May 27, 2022

Here’s what Marceno said in a separate video after last week’s tragedy, his deputies view the lives of those that they have sworn to protect as more valuable than their own.

“In our schools, over 100,000 children go to school, over 118 schools in Lee County. Our great governor DeSantis has made it very clear, by giving me and all sheriffs and law enforcement across our great state, all the tools that we need to absolutely make certain that our mission is complete, and that is safety and law and order.”

“My policy is very simple. When we get that dreaded call, God forbid, get that dreaded call, we don’t wait one second. We don’t wait one second. For any person or persons that go into a school where our children are and they present deadly force, they will be met with deadly force immediately. We are going to kill them. We’re not going to hesitate. We’re not going to wait.”

“So, when that suspect, that person or persons, make that fatal error, it’s on them. You don’t get to come into a school in our county and hurt our children. You don’t get to present deadly physical force in Lee County, where you walk into a school where our teachers, faculty, and staff are there protecting and teaching our children.”

Marceno also encouraged the local community to report any red flags that they see and to never overlook them.

On Sunday, the US Justice Department announced that it will review the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, where local police shoot failed to move as 78 minutes between the time the err entered the school until he was an agent killed by a Border Patrol.

The Biden administration initially resisted such a probe. But the Justice Department said in a statement that it was now moving forward at the request of Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin.

Source: DailyWire