The Failure in Uvalde Was Societal

American Conservative ^ | Aug 9, 2022 | Kevin Roberts

[robowombat]

the shooter was born to a mother who struggled with drugs and her boyfriend, who left almost immediately. The attacker lived with his grandmother. Though he continued his relationship with his mother, it was uneasy. No one “raised” this kid; he was left to raise himself.

[robowombat]

Unmentioned here, as it is unmentionable, is whether Arredondo’s ridiculous behavior covered him desperately trying to contact some narco trafficante cutout to find out whether the shooter was a ‘muchacho’ and therefore protected or just a stray nut. People who live in the Neches Strip constantly talk in general terms off the record as to how powerful the cartels have become in the area from the river to San Antonio. Short of martial law, which is impossible to even imagine, there is no way to retake the region that has been throughly infiltrated and police and governments bought off and intimidated. This is absolutely taboo to talk about in any media.

[Jonty30]

Very nearly 100% of the school shooters have been losers. It makes me wonder if a hybrid education in a trade, where they can earn some money while going tomschool might ameliorate some of this.

[kelly4c]

This gets to the heart of it all.

[Secret Agent Man]

The failure was LIBERAL.

[roving]

It’s more simple than that. It’s called cowardliness

[fieldmarshaldj]

Actually, had the police done their job and not acted like cowards...

[Mr. Blond]

Gee, not one mention of the shooter being a mentally ill tranny?

[Ken H]

It was about cowardly cops who tazed and cuffed parents so they couldn’t protect their kids.

[SaveFerris]

This

[cranked]

Societal?
Really?

So if it wasn’t for the ‘societal’ issues, the Uvalde police would have stopped the shooter instead of standing around with their collective fingers up their asses and preventing parents from doing what they themselves should have been doing: saving children’s lives?

[robowombat]

The war on traditional fatherhood, straight white men and ‘toxic masculinity’ might be a part of the problem. The 19th century popular literature was full of stories of fatherless boys ( dad died he didn’t run off) who were paragons who went to school, worked full time to help support mom and younger siblings and rose to a respectable estate. Check the true story of Captain George Wallace of the US Army who is about the only heroic figure from the white side on the dismal day of Wounded Knee (he was the soldier who loved peace and made the Lakota his lifetime object of study and he died trying to stop a battle not cause one.)

[pepsionice]

One odd aspect that you never see much about....this police chief (Arrendondo) and his resume. What exactly did the guy do for the past 30 years?

[robowombat]

I was never faced with a moral choice such as those police had but I did once suggest to a company commander and a master sgt that what was being done was dangerous and foolish. The response was ‘Fu, no one asked you.Get the F back in formation or I will kick your ass and charge you with indiscipline. Things went sideways and battalion staff covered it up.No one killed but a real goat screw ensued.

[robowombat]

Another deliberate blank spot. Like what did FDR’s son who became a MG in the Army AF actually do?

[Right Republican]

Jonty30 is on the right track. Family breakdown started with the pill, then no-fault divorce, then Roe v Wade, and finally with courts overwhelmingly giving custody and financial support exclusively to women. Our institutions have done their damned best to relegate men to second-class citizenship, if not to strive to make them seen as subhuman.

[Louis Foxwell]

Moral leadership is treated as criminal by authoritarian structures that deny the effort to make decisions to end violence and heal broken lives. The demons of indifference to the needs of others and insistence upon protecting one’s personal interests have invaded police, teachers, ministers, and care takers of all types.
Uvalde is the casual consequence of indifference to the suffering of children couched in the sincerely held belief that risking one’s comfort to help someone in trouble is foolish. We have come to believe that evil is the undeniable way of the world and nothing can or should be done to stop its plunder.
Our society is broken by wickedness. We are sickened by moral corruption. Pornography, abortion, atheism, and hatred are the 4 horsemen of our epoch. We stand against them at our peril but stand against them we must. The few who know this have kept their powder dry. The time to end this evil reign by calling upon the power of God and marching in his army is nigh.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Diversity. You can’t have more diversity and at the same time expect society to remain stable.

[robowombat]

I hope you are right, as the current status quo took years to infiltrate our culture, few grasp its pervasive rot. A friend’s son asked a pertinent question, ‘why should anyone tell the truth about any situation? Those who do and accept any blame will be destroyed. Truth telling just means being punished amid a huge hypocritical clamor and fake moral outrage by those who are practicing CYA which is the new national default model.

[robowombat]

Satan’s minion’s do literally appear to be among us. Take a look at this post and the picture of the ‘nurse’ perpetrator:

Traveling nurse, 52, is charged with murdering veteran, 97, ‘after illegally administering shot of “something special” and disabling his oxygen machine’