Uvalde – Page 3 – The War on Guns

More Than a Feeling

Where Texas teachers carry guns, a community feels more secure [More]

They don’t just FEEL secure.

[Via Jim S]

Beto Testing

“You don’t get to pretend that you care about public safety if you’re a governor who allows six major mass shootings to happen on your watch while actively going out of your way to make it easier for criminals to carry guns.” [More]

What a lying @$$hole.

These idiots, too.

[Via bondmen]

We’re the Only Ones Just Following Orders Enough

“If there’s kids in there, we need to go in”: Officers in Uvalde were ready with guns, shields and tools — but not clear orders [More]

Breach the door? Stop the threat? Save the children?

What would the right magic incantation have been?

I see the transcripts have been reviewed. Is anybody doing the same with bodycams?

[Via Michael G]

We’re the Only Ones Team Players Enough

Officer husband of slain Uvalde teacher was detained, had gun taken away after trying to save wife [More]

What was he trying to do, make them all look bad?

[Via WiscoDave]

We’re the Only Ones Knowing Enough

Report: Police at school had rifles earlier than known [More]

Oh, they knew. They just didn’t want you to.

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Inexplicable Enough

Uvalde Police Went 77 Minutes Without Trying To Open The Door Where A Shooter Killed 19 Children and 2 Adults [More]

But they not only have no duty to protect, they maintain they have no duty to explain.

[Via Michael G]

UPDATE:

Police didn’t try to open doors to Uvalde classrooms with shooter inside [More]

No wonder these cowardly morons have lawyered up.

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot Enough

A deputy U.S. Marshal assigned to a fugitive task force within the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office is accused of taking Find My Friends to a creepy new level by illegally using law enforcement technology to access cell phone locations for people he’d been in relationships with. [More]

I’m sure he’s just one bad apple.

No?

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Self-Defending Enough

Uvalde Police Chief Defends Response To Robb Elementary Massacre In First In-depth Interview [More]

In fairness, it looks like his plan may have worked.

[Via bondmen]

UPDATE:

As public pressure mounts for more information on the deadly Uvalde school shooting, some are concerned that Texas officials will use a legal loophole to block records from being released — even to the victims’ families — once the case is closed. [More]

Or to channel our old amigo, Gold Hat:

Records? We ain’t got no records. We don’t need no records. I don’t have to show you any stinking records!

[Via Lane]

We’re the Only Ones Bureaucratic Enough

Uvalde Shows Once Again That Cops Are Just Armed Bureaucrats – What happened in Uvalde is part of a pattern, not an aberration. [More]

So it’s not just “a few bad apples“?

[Via Michael G]

We’re the Only Ones Going Long Enough

And that’s the long and the short of it.

[Via Jess]

‘Centric’ McConaughey Reveals Shallow Understanding of Right to Arms

Who cares what he thinks? The answer, like it or not, is “millions”… [More]

Undersized knowledge meets oversized influence.

We’re the Only Ones Incommunicado Enough

The state agency investigating the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded, a Texas state senator said Friday. [More]

This meme sums things up more accurately than any “news” account I’ve seen.

[Via Jess]

An Open Door Policy

Mountain lion roams into California high school classroom…There was no safety threat to the public… [More]

Yeah, what harm could come from staff leaving a door open for predators?

[Via Michael G]

A Simpler Time

Something has clearly changed between now and then. [More]

Not for normals, they haven’t, except that we’re increasingly no longer the norm.

[Via Mack H]

Telling It Like It Is

We have fathers who aren’t home. We have emasculated our men. Our children are at stake. You notice that these shooters, they have had family problems. The Parkland shooter – 37 times police were called to his home. It’s not the gun. [More]

I like the way Sears talks.

[Via Mack H]

‘Safety’ First?

I request that these committees review what steps previous legislatures have enacted, what resources the State has made available to local school districts, and make recommendations to the Legislature and the Executive Branch so that meaningful action can be made on, among other things, the following topics to prevent future school shootings:
School safety
Mental health
Social media
Police training
Firearm safety [More]

OK, Governor, flesh out what you mean by that last one.

[Via Lane]

Small Wonder

Richard Small is a self proclaimed “NRA Republican” and long-time gun owner who says the Uvalde, Texas, shooting made him question why he owned an AR-15-style gun – a gun that has been used in multiple mass shooting in the US. [Watch]

How convenient.

I wonder who this quisling is and how he all of a sudden has become the go-to guy for the grabbers to hold up as a “reasonable” NRA member.

My guess is if you pull the thread you’ll find a Lincoln Project apparatchik.

In any case, I’d say the Bylaws qualify him for expulsion from NRA, but if they didn’t have the integrity to do it to Michael Moore, they won’t want to touch it.

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Uncooperative Enough

Uvalde police, school district no longer cooperating with Texas probe of shooting [More]

Avoiding conflict and hiding seems to be a specialty with these characters…

[Via Michael G]

The Impose Unenforceable Edicts for the Children Act

Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee will hold a vote on a gun control package Thursday which includes six gun control measures that would not have prevented the Uvalde attack. [More]

Here it is.

Hopefully, Republican “moderates” won’t totally blow the “red wave” in November and this never makes it to the floor.

[Via Jim S]