Even in Uvalde, where police have been criticized for waiting on the scene for more than an hour, the gunman is believed to have fired more than 100 rounds in the first three minutes, according to a state report. “Timing is all that matters,” Mr. Irwin said. “It is so simple”. Of the eight school officials under training, Mandi was somewhat of an anomaly. She was the only woman in the group. Several others were administrators – superintendent, principal – rather than teachers. Otherwise, she was typical. Everyone had some comfort with guns. Maddy described hunting with her husband and shooting at a gun range on the weekends. He said he had taken other firearms courses, including concealed carry training, one of the requirements to participate in FASTER. Like others, she worked in a rural area, where carrying guns into schools is more common, in part because of longer police response times. A team in training, from Oklahoma, estimated that the response time in their area was at least 22 minutes. “The last thing I want is for people to think we’re just a bunch of gun-toting teachers who want an excuse to carry guns in schools,” said Mark, a high school teacher in Ohio who described measuring the school’s hallway of to determine how far. he had to learn to shoot.
