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Uvalde police held off on confronting shooter because of the rifle he used: report
The Hill ^ | 03/21/2023 | JULIA MUELLER

Posted on 03/21/2023 12:39:32 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The police who responded to a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last May held off on confronting the shooter inside the classroom out of concern over the AR-15 rifle he used, according to a report.

A new investigation from the Texas Tribune found that officers decided that “immediately confronting the gunman” and the assault-style weapon “would be too dangerous,” although some of the officers on-scene were equipped with the same rifle.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: banglist; cowardice; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; donutwatch; juliamueller; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; police; presstitutes; rifle; shooter; smearmachine; texas; uvalde
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why?

Feminized culture.


61 posted on 03/21/2023 2:25:52 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

IDK about this. But what I have been told by locals is that the Chief was working with the Feds, but the rank and file officers were told this was an exercise and not to move until told to do so. They were told it was a training exercise.

IDK. FWIW.


62 posted on 03/21/2023 2:27:49 PM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: dragnet2

There’s an episode of “Adam-12” in which Reed and Malloy are faced with an active shooter. They call in for bullet-proof vests. The contraptions that the sergeant brings them look like an X-ray techs apron.


63 posted on 03/21/2023 2:29:53 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Rinnwald

Yeah. Handguns are capable of minute-of-bad-guy accuracy to 100 yards, with practice. Oregon’s Measure 114 10 round restriction is still in judicial limbo. I hope it’s struck down.


64 posted on 03/21/2023 2:36:09 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
When seconds count, cops are a hallway away waiting for hours. The same unionized bureaucrats in law enforcement insist free citizens are not to be armed.

Need to arm those who actually care about their own lives and the lives of the children they're responsible for.



65 posted on 03/21/2023 2:39:39 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Widget Jr

66 posted on 03/21/2023 2:43:29 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If I were a cop I’d be ashamed to admit this. First because it’s an admission of cowardice. Second because it exposes an ignorance. In close quarters and at short range the AR does not have a decisive advantage over a powerful hand gun operated by a qualified marksman, especially in superior numbers.

Once again the gun gets the blame.


67 posted on 03/21/2023 2:51:45 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Marshmellow cowards listening to these little children get massacred by this puke, you will have to answer for this. How do they sleep at night?


68 posted on 03/21/2023 3:03:43 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I can’t. I’ll never understand how one lunatic kept almost 400 first-responders at bay without ascribing some choice character flaws.


69 posted on 03/21/2023 3:06:09 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Jonty30

See post #48.


70 posted on 03/21/2023 3:33:36 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog
Looks like KBAR is a bit declasse for Petey. Got him a custom knife in Gucci colors. Tre chic.

”In the rear, with the gear.”

71 posted on 03/21/2023 3:46:19 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Vaquero
Fags, sissies and women. What a PD.

I am surprised they could hold that woman back since there were one a few dozen men present.

72 posted on 03/21/2023 3:58:00 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: Pilsner

Some “ORDERS” are issued by COWARDS and made to be IGNORED.

This was one of those orders, and only COWARDS would have obeyed it!


73 posted on 03/21/2023 4:02:43 PM PDT by 5th MEB
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To: immadashell
They weren’t able to use that weapon because everyone was afraid they “might shoot their eye out.”

That's what my dad told my brother and me...for decades!

74 posted on 03/21/2023 4:03:48 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“immediately confronting the gunman” and the assault-style weapon “would be too dangerous,”

Any more dangerous than a 116 year old rifle like this Remington M8 made in 1906?

https://images.guns.com/wordpress/2012/12/model8ranger3.jpg

or this one?
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/guns/images/7/7a/RemingtonModel81SpecialPolice.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20181221135120


75 posted on 03/21/2023 4:49:46 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: dragnet2

I had to buy my own body armor, but the Department would replace it every couple of years at no cost to me. They didn’t try to collect their latest replacement when I retired from the Department.

“How would they know what kind of rifle he had - unless they “confronted” him, and/or had a clear shot at him?”

Regardless, intimidating “blind” fire/ricochets from police would have taken SOME toll on that horrific murderer.


76 posted on 03/21/2023 5:00:31 PM PDT by Does so (......."Who is Ray Epps?"........should be overstamped on every piece of currency)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would be much more worried about one of my 30.06’s than my AR’s, just sayin


77 posted on 03/21/2023 5:26:44 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Chicken shit!


78 posted on 03/21/2023 7:42:10 PM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: gundog

MAC 90 against a 9mm pistol.
Nice shooting Airman!


79 posted on 03/21/2023 7:49:28 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: gundog

GUCCI COLORS....
Vietnam?


80 posted on 03/21/2023 8:02:53 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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