As a school resource officer, it was Scot Peterson's job to protect the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
But the school's only armed guard didn't go inside the building when a shooter struck the Parkland, Florida, school, and he told The Washington Post in an interview published Monday that he's still trying to figure out why.
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