When Seconds Count, Police Stand Around Outside
When Seconds Count, Police Stand Around Outside
No time today, but I do want to post this:
Reason is reporting in multiple stories, based on videos taken at the scene, that the police waited somewhere between 40 to 60 minutes to actually enter Robb Elementary, scene of the recent horrific school shooting.
Video and witness accounts from outside Uvalde's Robb Elementary School suggest local police officers not only failed to try and stop the shooter for an unconscionably long time but also actively prevented parents from trying to save their kids.
The shooter—Salvador Ramos—was inside the school for 40 minutes or more while police stood around outside, the Associated Press reports. "Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school," but the officers reportedly waited outside until a SWAT team was ready.
From a different article:
In fact, it took the police so long to get the situation under control that one mother who was 40 miles away when she learned about the shooting had enough time to drive to the school. According to The Wall Street Journal, police arrested and handcuffed her to prevent her from trying to save her children.
Shades of Parkland officer Brian Miller.
One thing is for certain: increasing security presence at schools won’t make a lick of difference if those tasked to actually provide the security refuse to do so.
Bureaucracy in action, or inaction rather.
Time was, the man on the spot made the call and no one else. Nowadays it's a whole chain of bucket passing to go through first so the scuzz-buckets called politicians and civil servants can keep their back clear, which is why police et al are made to wait in during such events: they are micromanaged and will be penalised, even fired or charged if acting without explicit orders.
I'm hoping for the day when police and military personnel and officers snap. A people's court for politicians: life doing hard labour (say clearing weeds from railroads or scrapping old engines and reactors and such, manually) or the hemp fandango.
As for gun control - the very phrase is a lie. You can register owners and to prebuy checks and limit ammo and number and types of firearms to your heart's content and it will not make one jot of a difference. Want to know why?
Because the people you do not want to have guns, do not care about neither law nor sense nor reason.
Might as well try to control the climate.
I'm just going to leave this here:
https://grahamfactor.substack.com/p/a-brief-note-for-keyboard-warriors?utm_source=%2Finbox&utm_medium=reader2&s=r
Not trying to start any arguments. I actually agree with many of the things written about here. However, I also value objectivity and multiple points of view.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it" - Aristotle