A little exchange in Twitter. Click to enlarge.

And I missed in the collage one tweet before the Chicago v. McDonald quote:

I believe they are slaves to their own prefabricated misconceptions about us. If you are into guns and the Second Amendment, you must be some rube, an uneducated-sister-humping redneck who can barely read and write and can be easily defeated in a simple argument. He bitched because I refused to play by his rigged rules and did not allow him to move the goalposts. And his ignorance came to shine in a supernova way with his last tweet about SCOTUS’ opinions.

A mom of two students at Robb Elementary School says she was handcuffed by officers as the shooter was still inside before she jumped a fence and ran into the school to safely retrieve her children on Tuesday.

Angeli Rose Gomez, a mother of a second-grader and a third-grader, told the Wall Street Journal she drove 40 miles to the Uvalde school and was one of numerous parents begging and yelling at the officers to enter sooner to take out 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos.

After a few minutes, she said, a US Marshall placed her in handcuffs, stating that she was under arrest for intervening in an active investigation, according to the Journal.
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Gomez recognized a few local Uvalde police officers and convinced them to tell the marshals to remove the cuffs.

Once freed, she distanced herself from the crowd, jumped the school fence, ran inside the school building and grabbed her two children. The three sprinted out of the school together, she said.

Texas school shooting: Cops handcuffed mom before she ran in to get her kids (nypost.com)

And this is mom and her kids

She could be what? 105 pounds soaking wet? Just a mom with zero experience on tactical rescues or any kind of police training? And she did what trained officers refused to do?

Every time I believe it cannot get any worse for the Uvalde PD, shit pops up proving me wrong.

Just a bit ago at the gym, I was watching CNN while on the treadmill and saw these two items one right after the other:

CNN: We must stop American people from getting weapons of war.
CNN: We must help the Ukranian people by giving them more weapons of war.

These are the cops who, armed with machine guns, body armor, stun grenades, armored shields, and a fucking armored vehicle, hid outside while children died because an 18 year old kid with mental issues and a semiautomatic rifle scared them away.

There is a lesson here – Area Ocho

It had to be done

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.

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.