Yesterday, I spent a lot of time trying to get people to understand that “just because there was a delay, it wasn’t automatically wrong”. There are times when not going in is the right thing to do.

Uvalde was NOT one of those times

There is also no way to automatically say “if they didn’t go in, they were cowards!”.

Do please tell me what is the explanation for cops to stand around while children are being murdered.

I felt pretty strongly that without more information, we couldn’t jump to any real conclusion and that, If we waited, we’d get the info. Now we have it.

And none of it favors the Uvalde Cops

-It wasn’t scared cops hiding outside (like we saw in Parkland).

I guess they were waiting for the manicure to dry?

-It wasn’t a lack of awareness of proper tactics (like we had in Columbine).

There were NO established tactics for active shooters implemented prior to Columbine. They came after that awful lesson.

This appears to be a bad call by the on-scene commander who, for whatever reason, thought that he should employ “barricaded subject” tactics instead of “active shooter” tactics. At least that’s the official report.

They chose a scapegoat already? Everybody else skates free I guess.

I find it hard to understand, however, how ANY of the cops on the scene could have interpreted the situation that way if, in fact, there were still shots being fired inside the school at the time that call was made.

They were obeying orders because the on-scene commander declared “barricaded suspect.” And no, that is not a fucking excuse, they should have said “Fuck you” and go in anyway like the Border Patrol Agent who eventually took out the Asshole Shooter Salvador Ramos currently roasting in Hell.

It also appears that, before that call was made, one or more officers CHOSE not to follow the threat they were engaged with into the building. THAT is a horrible violation of tactics and duty that I don’t understand. (Like we had at the Pulse Nightclub)

Maybe they got lost or had to go pee or it was their lunch break. It could not be cowardice, right?

It seems that if they had, one of three things would’ve been different:
1. They could’ve stopped the shooter from barricading.
2. They could’ve stopped the shooter.
3. They could’ve been physically incapacitated.

No fucking shit, Sherlock.

In the case of #1 or #3, it is likely that the commander, knowing officers were in the building would have been less likely to make the mistaken call.

Or like in Pulse, they would have been ordered OUT of the building too.

Again, I think we’re going to learn more over time that will give us more and/or better answers. And, as always, we will learn from the incident and be better prepared in the future.

Not from you, that is sure.

This is an epic disaster.  Layers of disaster and fuck-ups.

A teacher left a locked door propped open.

The SRO was not on campus.

The SRO responded to the 911 call and drove past the gunman because he was hiding behind his truck.

A gaggle of Uvalde police officers got shot at and retreated and stood around in a hallway with their dicks in their hands and their thumbs up their asses waiting for BORTAC to arrive and to get the keys to the classroom.

It took over an hour from the 911 call to actually putting lead into shooter.

After Columbine we knew the only way to address an active shooter was to immediately find him and kill him.

That was reinforced during Parkland.

Aging in Uvalde that was ignored and there were casualties because of it.

This is absolutely unacceptable.

When the report comes in of “shots fired at a school,” it should be a race among the officers to be the first one to kill the shooter.

Instead, we got another LEO circle jerk while kids died.

Georgia gun maker Daniel Defense has withdrawn from the NRA Annual Meeting that kicks off in Houston, Texas tomorrow after investigators revealed that the rifle used by the 18-year old murderer in his attack on a classroom at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas came from the company.

Daniel Defense pulls out of NRA convention – Bearing Arms

Goody! You feel “guilty” about what some asshole allegedly did with one of your products. Fake Remorse ain’t going to help you with the incoming lawsuit. If you are thinking about the bottom line, not showing your customers you have the balls to stand tall even when shit is being flung at you is even worse.

Enjoy writing those compensation checks.

Hat tip MannyL.

This idea of manufacturing AK rifles in Venezuela goes back to 2006 when Chavez was still alive and well on his way to screw up the country. I confess I had not paid attention since then, even though Venezuela did have back then a pool of specialized and trained people to manufacture quality weapons (mostly all variants of the FAL and Hi Power pistols).

They are not very specific of the reasons why the deal fell through, but the excuses are the US sanctions against Russia and that the former head of Kalashnikov was sent to prison for corruption. Both excuses sound like BS to me but who gives a damn other than Venezuela will not be able to get income selling weapons to South American cartels and other nefarious actors in South America.

That is an official poster from NYC Health.

The world is upside down. I was talking recently with somebody about the stupidity of medical things as my mother needed pay for a doctor visit to get a prescription to buy syringes to get her insulin shots, but junkies get them for free to feed their addiction.

And now this crap?

Two headlines that should haunt and outrage us for a very long time.

They are not coming to save you, but they may show up to pick up the corpses after the scene is “safe”.

Update: A quote from a buddy of mine in Facebook after he saw the bottom screen cap.

“Fucker was in there long enough, he could have finished his high-school degree”