This was in my drafts folder, so finishing it off:
Unlocked doors were 'first line of defense' at Uvalde school - "The Uvalde massacre began after the 18-year-old gunman entered the school through a door that could only be locked from the outside then got inside a classroom that had a busted lock"
Barack Obama on Twitter - "As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer. His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him." Facebook - "I thought this was satire, but apparently Obama is really that tone deaf. What happened to the guy? He got radicalised or something?" It got worse in the subsequent tweets - he went on to promote nonsense totally irrelevant to Uvalde
Uvalde, Buffalo Shootings Expose the Myth of the ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ - "For those lawmakers, it's more guns that are needed in America, where the number of firearms now surpasses the number of people living in the United States. Just hand them to the right people – the "good" people – and bad shooters will be stopped in their tracks, they argue. That didn't work in Texas, where armed law enforcement personnel at the scene after the shooter first shot at his grandmother were unable to prevent the bloodbath. The school also has a school resource officer, though authorities said Thursday the officer was not on site at that time (after saying previously that the officer was). Texas authorities this week were fielding accusations that people trained to respond to such incidents didn't move quickly enough, possibly costing lives. It didn't work May 16 in Buffalo, where an armed, off-duty security guard and former police officer was unable to stop a shooter on an apparent racist rampage. The security guard, along with nine Black supermarket shoppers, was killed. It's also not a common outcome in previous active shooter episodes, according to the FBI. From 2000-2019, 119 of 345 active shooters committed suicide, the bureau said in a long-trend report. Another 119 were apprehended by police, 67 were killed by police, and five are at large. In only four cases did citizens kill the shooters – and none of those four happened at an educational setting. The last two years show a sharp increase in active shooter incidents but similar trends when it comes to the role of armed "good guy" citizens. Of 103 shooters, 54 were apprehended, 18 were killed by law enforcement, 18 committed suicide and six were killed by civilians, the FBI reports. "Unless you are going to put a SWAT team in every school, 24/7, what exactly are you proposing to do?" says Mike Lawlor, a University of New Haven criminal justice professor who previously served as Connecticut's undersecretary for criminal justice policy. Even with trained law enforcement on the scene, "They were outgunned by this kid who was wearing body armor and had an AR-15" assault weapon, notes Lawlor, who as a state legislator authored the state's "red flag" gun law allowing firearms to be denied to people deemed a danger to themselves or others. When law enforcement responds almost immediately, shooters have nevertheless been able to kill many people before being stopped. In August 2019, a gunman opened fire in downtown Dayton, Ohio, and police "neutralized" him 30 seconds after he fired his first shot, authorities said at the time. But because the shooter was armed with a high-capacity magazine, he was able to fire dozens of shots quickly, killing nine and wounding 27. The FBI reports don't detail shootings of civilians who were trying to save others but mistaken as the original shooters. But there have been incidents when a "good guy" perished for his efforts to defend himself or others from an active shooter. In Alabama in 2018, Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. – hailed as a hero by people who said he pulled out his gun to protect them after shots rang out in a shopping center – was himself fatally shot by police who believed Bradford to be the perpetrator. The romantic notion of a "good guy" avenger is rooted in American pulp fiction and crime fiction, says Georgetown University professor Susanna Lee, author of the book "Hard Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority." Characters such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe – always shooting bad guys and never missing – feed a myth of being both invulnerable and righteous by virtue of carrying a gun, she says. "This is something particular to American fiction, the romanticized notion of the man who is alone and armed," Lee says. "And it's particularly American on a second level – that being that Americans are uniquely not just willing but eager to mix fiction and reality."
Gaetano Catelli on Twitter - “Ms. Gomez … was one of numerous parents who began encouraging—first politely, and then with more urgency—police and other law enforcement to enter the school. After a few minutes, she said, federal marshals approached her and put her in handcuffs” "The last thing law enforcement wants is for innocent civilians to inadvertently block getting a clean shot at the perpetrator, or worse, become a hostage." Of course the solution is even more guns, then when everyone gets shot, demand yet more guns
Qasim Rashid, Esq. on Twitter - "The Parkland Cops ran away. The Buffalo Cop was killed instantly. The 3 Cops at Uvalde were overpowered, then waited 40 min to enter the school. Veteran Cops repeatedly failed—but we’re supposed to expect Lunch Lady Doris & School Nurse Betty to stop a terrorist with an AR-15.😑"
Texas elementary school shooting death toll rises to 19 children - "Nineteen pupils aged between seven and 11 years old have been shot dead along with two of their teachers by an 18-year-old gunman who has also been killed in the latest school mass shooting to blight America - the deadliest since Sandy Hook almost a decade ago. Salvador Ramos - a fast food worker described as a lonely child who was bullied for his lisp and for wearing eyeliner - carried out the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, around 11.30am Tuesday after shooting his grandmother at a house elsewhere in the city, reportedly after an argument about failing to graduate. Police and officials said Ramos, who had purchased a pair of rifles for his 18th birthday and showed them off on social media, fled the scene of the first shooting in a car armed with a handgun, 'possibly' a rifle, and wearing body armor. He ditched the vehicle close to the school, went inside and 'started shooting children, teachers, whoever was in his way.'... Ted Cruz, Republican senator for Texas, led the response - repeating well-worn arguments that 'restricting the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens' to prevent mass shootings 'doesn't work'. The solution, he said, is to put armed officers on school campuses... Ramos's social media was full of photos of guns, which he bought legally on his 18th birthday" Too bad the media can't claim this is an anti-Hispanic hate crime
'I got a lil secret I wanna tell you': Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos hinted at plans to attack
No, these photos of a person wearing a skirt aren’t of the Uvalde, Texas school shooter
How Many Schools are in The U.S (Statistics & Facts) - 2022 - "As of 2020, there are 130,930 recorded number of K-12 schools in the United States of America (U.S.A), according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)" Even if you only have one guard per school, that's a third the number of active duty Army personnel: to guard against a black swan event too (there were 34 in 2021)
Meme - Coin Higgins @EoinHiggins_: "18 children dead in Texas and ICE is on scene which means many parents will have to risk detention in US concentration camps while checking if their kid is alive" Cschwing #sogratefulforSPN...: "A border patrol agent stopped the shooter" FierceBombshell @BombshellSlays: "Only because the shooter wasn't White. White shooters get rewarded." Like clockwork. Weird how US police shoot minorities on sight, but they are still overrepresented in prisons No one's going to obsess about his race since he's not white
Meme - @brownskinsugarr: "I bet you the shooter was a racist white piece of shit" "This Tweet has been deleted."
The Uvalde, Texas, school district had an extensive safety plan. 19 children were killed anyway. - "Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had doubled its security budget in recent years, according to public documents, in part to comply with state legislation passed in the wake of a 2018 school shooting in which eight students and two teachers were killed. The district adopted an array of security measures that included its own police force, threat assessment teams at each school, a threat reporting system, social media monitoring software, fences around schools and a requirement that teachers lock their classroom doors, according to the security plan posted on the district’s website."
Richard Hanania on Twitter - "TX Sen. Ted Cruz offered a solution “have one door into and out of the school…armed police officers at that door” — Cruz said “if that happened” “the armed police officers could have taken him out and we’d have 19 children/2children still alive” #Uvalde" "The stupid party never ceases to amaze! They're all architects now. Washington will mandate every school will have one door, one way in, one way out. Good guy with gun at entrance. Global war on doors. What about windows? Leave it to the sates. Talks with such conviction too!"
Richard Hanania on Twitter - "Given all the Libs of TikTok videos they've been watching, you'd think conservatives would have some doubts about the mental stability of teachers and the wisdom of arming them."
The Worst Failures in Uvalde - The Atlantic - "The police errors make for an alluring target, because they are so glaring and because they appeal to both sides of our intense partisan drive, catering simultaneously to progressive skepticism of police and conservative desire to change the subject away from guns. As the epidemic of school shootings continues, many policy makers have argued that better policing and security protocols are the best way to keep children safe when violence strikes. Without minimizing the police failures, though, I worry that too much focus on them risks eclipsing the bigger picture, which is that the gravest failures happened before the gunman arrived at the school and opened fire. The fundamental problem, of course, is that semiautomatic weapons are easily available to nearly anyone in the United States with relatively little trouble. Some reporting indicates that the Uvalde shooter was a victim of bullying, and though this may have played a role in his psychology, bullying is universal and timeless; readily accessible assault rifles are not. Gun-rights advocates used to try to sidestep this argument, arguing that prospective killers would find other ways to kill if guns were harder to find, but these days, with their position ascendant in the legal system, they hardly bother, instead pointing out that courts are interpreting the Constitution to block most gun laws. They are correct, but that doesn’t negate the simple fact that easy access to guns is what makes this country different. The guns and ammunition used in Uvalde were legally purchased, and no police officer could do anything about them until the shooter began committing crimes—by which point even an effective police response would have merely limited, not stopped, the slaughter, given how much death a shooter armed with an AR-15 can inflict, and how quickly... Sir Robert Peel, the father of modern policing, argued that the goal of a police force was not catching criminals after the fact but preventing crime, and it’s hard to see how police might have been able to prevent the Uvalde massacre. So-called red-flag laws, which allow courts to temporarily seize guns from people if they might be a danger to themselves or others, may indeed be a commonsense measure, but there’s precious little evidence that they are useful in stopping mass shootings. (They seem to work better for preventing suicides.) Armed guards at schools, better preparation, fortifying schools—all of these have been proposed as good solutions, but few of them seem to work all that well in practice. Schools in Texas had already been “hardened,” but that didn’t prevent the horror in Uvalde. The school district had drilled for a mass-shooting event. No armed officer was stationed at the school when the gunman struck. (In Buffalo, a retired police officer serving as a security guard engaged and fired at the shooter, and authorities say he saved lives by buying time; despite this apparent heroism, 10 people died.)... demanding that police respond more swiftly and courageously once the slaughter of schoolchildren has already begun is itself the mark of a broken society, which no longer seems able to ask that we prevent such killings in the first place"
911 dispatcher accused of hanging up on store employee during Buffalo shooting call - "A 911 dispatcher has been placed on leave and may lose her job after allegedly hanging up on a supermarket employee hiding during this weekend’s shooting rampage in Buffalo, New York... An assistant office manager at Tops Friendly Market, where 10 Black people were killed by a white gunman Saturday, told The Buffalo News that she was whispering during the 911 call because she feared the shooter would hear her. The store employee alleges the dispatcher shouted at her, asked why she was whispering — then hung up. The employee said she had to call her boyfriend and tell him to dial 911 and report the shooting."
James T. Hodgkinson: Bernie Sanders supporter, strongly anti-Trump - "“Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.” he posted on his personal Facebook page on March 22. “Republicans are the Taliban of the USA”" MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid likened the US Christian right to the Taliban Only the right is capable of inciting violence
NBA players had to perform a day after a racist murdered Black people in Buffalo (headlined as "White fans were entertained by Black athletes a day after a racist killed Black people in Buffalo — this is what white supremacy looks like") - "Sports only serve as an escape from society if you’re white." When you thought shit leftist takes couldn't get even worse. Clearly blacks shouldn't entertain whites, and when they lose their jobs this will be due to "white supremacy"
Stephen L. Miller on Twitter - "The car still did it according to Twitter publishing. This is called proving the point."
Psaki says Biden has NO plans to visit Waukesha after the deadly Christmas parade attack Biden will travel to Buffalo on Tuesday following mass shooting, official says
Mad Vax, Yo: Buffalo Shooter Was a Left-Leaning COVID Nazi, Wore Hazmat Suit to School
Meme - "The teachers, 4.651 seconds after we arm them: *CRT book, knives, rifles* LEAD THE REVOLUTION COMRADES!"
Uvalde Cop With Punisher Logo On Phone Was Waiting To Hear From His Dying Wife During Shooting - "The cop was seen to be checking his phone as the rampage unfolded at Robb Elementary and many people pointed out how he had a Punisher logo as his lock screen. Some called out the irony of a police officer supporting the defiant Marvel vigilante even though he was seemingly doing nothing to stop a gunman killing children and teachers. Podcast host Albert Jaragua Corado wrote on social media: "That cop in Uvalde having his lock screen be the punisher logo and him being scared to take on an active shooter is truly the perfect encapsulation of how cops see themselves vs who they really are." However, the reality behind the now viral image is more complex and devastating. The officer has been named as Ruben Ruiz and his wife, Eva Mireles, was one of the two adult victims in the shooting... "To those who haven’t bothered to read even the news that’s been reported in your rush to judgment, he attempted to engage but was removed from the building and disarmed."
On heels of Uvalde massacre, California passes bill removing requirements for schools to report threats to law enforcement - "Instead of mandatory reporting of violent behavioral issues to law enforcement, school officials will now have the option to deal with them internally; a model that failed miserably in Florida and led to the Parkland shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, which saw 17 people murdered and another 17 injured."
