Posted on 05/26/2022 10:30:37 AM PDT by lowbridge
Hardcore opponents of gun control in the U.S. often respond to school shootings by proposing to arm teachers or add armed security guards to schools. But the inability of police to stop the gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, before he killed at least 19 children and two teachers Tuesday exposes the poor reasoning behind that proposal.
While all the details of the shooting are not yet clear, authorities’ accounts revealed that the gunman was confronted by multiple armed police officers — yet they were unable to stop him before he killed nearly two dozen people.
The gunman reportedly crashed his truck in a ditch near the campus before entering the school, and police officers arrived at the school after a report of that crash.
According to CBS News’ summary of Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Christopher Olivarez’s account, the shooter “stormed Robb Elementary School in the small city of Uvalde shortly after crashing his car in the area and immediately engaged in gunfire with state troopers on the scene. The gunman shot several police officers and then locked himself in a classroom.”
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According to various reports, after local officers called for backup, a specialized tactical unit made it into the classroom a full hour after the gunman entered the school, and an agent of an elite law enforcement unit was involved in killing the gunman. (That agent was injured in the process.)
Given those details, I find it increasingly impossible to understand how one could believe that the solution to school shootings is arming teachers or having a security guard protecting every school. If a group of police officers couldn’t stop a shooter, then why would we expect an individual teacher or security guard to do better?
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Talk about your major ‘deflecting’...
Such is the “logic” of folks to whom the operation of a wedge is considered high level physics.
The teachers in Uvalde were not armed. This whole article is a BS strawman.
Only a complete idiot could write this.
1)The element of surprise. 2) Deterrence in the first place might have prevented this in the first place because as we know, schools are gun free zones.
That’s some real pretzel logic right there......liberals truly do live in an alternate reality.
SMH
The shooter was a “person of color”, making the police hold their hands so that they’re not racist.
Pssssttttt. The teachers are already inside. So, msnbheehaw can simply phu cough.
Well, they get an F for trying at least.
“Zeeshan Aleem”
I hear that means “born a moron” in arabic
That's because they stood around for 40 minutes to get the body count up.
I dunno, you should ask Israel.
Depends on how they’re trained
It’s all a probability and odds issue anyway. More defensive arms reduces the number of innocents lost, but never down to zero.
This author is a nitwit and a liar.
quite a few LEOs with tactical gear, including two US Marshalls. At least two LEOs wearing tactical gear that included a helmet. And they all stood around waiting for a special team from Border Patrol.
US Marshall
US Marshall
Sheriff
Not sure what this one is TX State Trooper? End of video shows a few State Trooper SUVs
Who is this dumbass Zeeshan Aleem?
If either of the 2 teacher victims was armed, it’s news to me.
And if they were - and the shooter knew that teachers were armed, I’ll bet my left nut that he wouldn’t have gone there.
The moron who penned this piece cannot understand that he teacher in that classroom was inside and could have taken this bastard out fast before all the killing.
Cops couldn’t stop him because he went inside and locked the class door. An armed teacher in the room could have taken him out.
And it also shows why you should never give up your guns - the police will not rush in to protect you.
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