Law enforcement arrived within three minutes of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas in 2022, where a gunman shot dozens of people, murdering 19 children and two teachers. Nearly 400 cops waited in the hallways and outside the school for 77 minutes before engaging and shooting the killer. So much for that good guy with a gun argument.
A report spanning over 600 pages released by the Justice Department last week described “chaos” and “a great deal of confusion, miscommunication, a lack of urgency, and a lack of incident command” plagued the police response. The Uvalde shooting is the third-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, behind 2007’s Virginia Tech and 2012’s Sandy Hook mass killings.
The report states that when there is an active shooter, law enforcement is supposed “to immediately neutralize the subject; everything else, including officer safety, is subordinate to that objective.” Supposed to.
Cops are good at protecting themselves and often shoot an unarmed black person when mistaking a cell phone, lighter, pointy finger, etc, for a gun. Over 400 of them were great at putting their own safety before the safety of the children in Uvalde.
Another component of this is guns. Why do we sell assault weapons if cops are going to be too afraid to confront mass shooters using them? If the cops are afraid of them, then why are they legal to purchase? The gunman had fired about 142 rounds inside the building before he was stopped and many of these rounds were heard by the police while they sat on their collective ass.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said, “Assault weapons belong on battlefields, not classrooms.”
Kimberly Mata-Rubio, who lost her ten-year-old daughter Lexi Rubio in the shooting said, “I hope that the failures end today and the local officials do what wasn’t done that day, do right by the victims and survivors of Robb Elementary, terminations, criminal prosecutions, and our state and federal government enacts sensible gun laws.”
The one part of her hope we won’t get will be the enactment of sensible gun laws.
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Thank you, Clay, for your honest and sensible reaction to the report. The Uvalde shooting has to be one of the most horrific, infuriating events ever to take place around gun violence in my lifetime. All of those involved (in uniform and without) should be fired and never allowed to be in law enforcement again, considering they can’t do the job. They are a disgrace! And every assault weapon in the USA, outside of those used by the military, should be gathered up and sent over to Ukraine for their use where they can be properly used by people with courage.
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Yo! What Mary said!
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You make a very good point: “If even cops are afraid of assault weapons…”
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