I didn’t catch what he did, but it wouldn’t surprise me. The fact that even I’ve seen the failures of waiting 40 minutes to go in and shoot the shooter been reported in the New York Times and CNN really destroys their gun control narrative. CNN and the New York Times could do their best to ignore this but they’re kind of pushing this heavily.
I kind have a feeling they want the sound bites to claim they’re doing something about guns but don’t want it to pass because they know it hurts them politically every time they do and will use the media cover of the failure of the local police to justify it.
I think it was by mid-morning the next day that news stories appeared that Schumer was going to "put the brakes on" his big gun control push. Didn't give any reason. Now I think it's because he had his staff shake the tree for local background on the attack; they did a good job and came back to him with a lot of details by next morning, and he realized this wasn't going to evolve in a way he could use to push his gun-grab agenda. So he dropped the big push. For now.
They need a White middle-class conservative whack-job to be the shooter. Preferably a Christian. Stories about the police standing around doing nothing while the shooter uses children for targets don't help. Stories about the shooter being well-known to the police — or police using force to stop parents from rescuing their children — don't help.
The fact that the kids, and the cops, and the chief of police, and pretty much everyone involved were POCs doesn't help.