The Sources Documenting the Failures. This Isn't a Gun Control Issue. It's a Societal Failure.
It is increasingly clear the story from Uvalde, TX has changed as more facts are out. Now, we need to move on from gun control, which lacks Senate votes, to school safety, school architecture, school failures, and law enforcement failures. Instead of a long post today, here are the links to the relevant stories and you can read them instead of having to take my word for it.
The shooter had mental health issues including cutting his face up. Source.
The shooter shot his gun outside the school for twelve minutes. Source.
The shooter entered the school and no security guard was present nor tried to stop him. Source:
Notably, this is a major shift from even what I reported yesterday. Yesterday, press reports were that the school security officer did not stop the shooter. Now we know there was no school security officer present.
The police who went inside took no action against the shooter because they were afraid they’d get shot. They waited for a tactical unit. Source.
The tactical unit took almost an hour to show up. Source.
Police outside the school pepper-sprayed, tased, and arrested parents trying to get in to save their kids. Source.
Police called out to kids to reveal their hiding positions, allowing the gunman to fire on the kids. Then they lied about the timeline. Source.
The delayed police response cost the lives of children. Source.
Parents pleaded with the police to storm the school. Source.
Lots more in this Twitter thread here including that the police waited outside for at least thirty-five minutes:
And this video:
We do not know how an unemployed eighteen-year-old could afford the rifles and ammo. I have a Daniel Defense rifle. They are not cheap. Where did he get the money?
Why was there no school police officer and why did initial reports claim there was a police officer?
This is a failure of the police. This is a failure of the school. This is a failure of society in letting a young man grow up that way, cut his face repeatedly, and walk into a school to kill kids.
This is not a story about gun control. This is a story about failure. The conversation needs to shift. There are not enough votes for gun control. There are plenty of votes for armed personnel at schools, increased funding for school mental health counselors, etc. But are Democrats willing to put those up for a vote?
File under: "Welcome to the Wake of Idol Science"…
Science Sez true Truth's old fashioned,
Out of date, and what is more,
Science Sez it...We believe it.
(Someone please show "Truth" the door.)
Science Sez there’s only Matter,
Senseless atoms swirling ‘round.
Science Sez there's no True Reason.
(I’ve been told that’s quite profound…)
Science Sez there’s no real Meaning
Hence no true “Morality”.
Science Sez the “truth”’s subjective
We pro-choose selectively.
Science Sez that Chance is Sov’reign
(You know, like, The King of kings!)
Idol Science hath commanded
That we kiss her signet ring.
Yes, The Science we now follow
Swears true truth's been redefined,
There’s no Real Point to existence…
No Intelligent Design .
Science Sez, “There’s no true Evil.”
(Then I read the news today.)
Now The Science I’ve got Faith in
Doesn’t seem so smart, I’d say.
Science Sez true Good’s illusion,
Science Sez the same for “bad”.
Science Sez there’s no true Purpose…
(Common sense sez we’ve been had.)
Erick, can't those on the common sense right, as I consider myself, at least come together on better red flag laws? Put aside this boy's unreported mental problems and self-mutilation that would not be known to a gun dealer, why isn't the fact that he was a high school dropout sufficient to say he shouldn't be allowed to buy a gun until he was 25? The 2nd Amendment is about letting the states draw upon a well regulated militia, even Antonin Scalia said there is no Constitutional bar to drastic changes to our gun laws. There has to be something we can agree on.