US President Donald Trump has said he would have run in to the Florida high school where 17 people were shot dead this month even if he was not armed.
“I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” Mr Trump told a group of state governors gathered at the White House.
Mr Trump also said it was “disgusting” that officers reportedly did not confront the suspect on 14 February.
The massacre was the second-deadliest ever shooting at a US school.
“I think most of the people in this room would have done that, too,” said Mr Trump on Monday of his assertion that he would have rushed into the school.
He added: “You never know until you’re tested.”
His comments came after Florida governor Rick Scott on Sunday launched an inquiry into law enforcement’s response to the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Scot Peterson, a 32-year veteran officer who had been assigned to guard the high school, resigned last week as it emerged he had remained outside the building where most of the pupils were killed.
Source: BBC