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Harrowing video shows Texas cops RESTRAINING parents outside elementary school shooting and telling them 'we're taking care of it': Cops took up to 90 minutes to get inside classroom where gunman had trapped kids 'because they needed a key'
Daily Mail (UK) ^

Posted on 05/26/2022 6:51:59 AM PDT by TigerClaws

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To: stanne

> It’s about letting that child know you are doing
> everything you can to help

So no one else other than the child matters and you live only to yourself? What about your mate? Most children have TWO parents. And four grandparents. And sometimes siblings. And sometimes cousins, etc... A meaningless death might have more cost than you first realize at first glance.

My “lecture”, as _you_ call it, simply points out the fact that giving your life in vain is, well, ...vain! Virtue signalling is for the Left. If you are going to truly sacrifice, please do so wisely and thoughtfully, while trying not to endangering your own kids, your friends, neighbors, their children and law enforcement in the process.

(For example, if there were law enforcement officers already in the building, how would they know whether or not you were not also a threat? Or might your movements somehow unwittingly reveal their location to the shooter? Might you force them to act prematurely, supposing they knew hostages were already dead? Etc...)

Please understand, I’m not advocating for cowardice, but for measured and thoughtful judgment.

Respectful regards,


421 posted on 05/27/2022 12:49:16 PM PDT by mbj
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To: Reily

Fair point!


422 posted on 05/27/2022 12:49:51 PM PDT by null and void (We're trapped between too many questions unanaswered, and too many answers unquestioned...)
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To: mass55th

+1


423 posted on 05/27/2022 12:50:07 PM PDT by mbj
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To: PsyCon

> A few words about pre-identification. It is hard to
> impossible.

Hear, hear!


424 posted on 05/27/2022 12:51:44 PM PDT by mbj
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To: Guenevere

Me, I wouldn’t expend my energy on “Nonliberal” because he can’t seem to hear.

Proverbs 26
12 ¶ Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.


425 posted on 05/27/2022 12:55:33 PM PDT by mbj
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To: mbj

That kid, dying, takes precedence. Everyone will have to understand. Dad will carry on making sure police reform their stupid protocol or lack thereof.


426 posted on 05/27/2022 1:02:42 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

I completely understand how you feel.

But once it is certain there is no more hope for the one, their siblings and their father really ought to factor in somewhere.


427 posted on 05/27/2022 1:16:16 PM PDT by mbj
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To: null and void

> I guess the drill was a rip-roaring success

:-(

That’s actually quite probable. :’(


428 posted on 05/27/2022 1:17:40 PM PDT by mbj
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To: 1Old Pro

Sadly, one of Texas’ senators (Senator Ted Cruz) already proposed reasonably effective changes such as bullet proof glass, single points of entry at schools, an armed guard and the like - only to have it shot down by the Democrats.

This was completely preventable and it appears that it could have been fully funded across the entire country for less than half a billion.


429 posted on 05/27/2022 1:18:07 PM PDT by mbj
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To: TigerClaws

> Using the phrase “circle back” is a 2022 admission of guilt.

Nope; you’re confused by the Biden administration and their spokeswomen: just because _they_ lie pathologically doesn’t actually mean everyone else does.


430 posted on 05/27/2022 1:24:01 PM PDT by mbj
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To: mass55th

Do we even know for sure that the 19 kids were still alive at that point?


431 posted on 05/27/2022 1:25:15 PM PDT by mbj
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To: McGavin999

Not everyone in the USA is blind like these armchair quarterbacks. The men in uniform endure the fools for the sake of those precious few who understand reality, and their families.


432 posted on 05/27/2022 1:28:59 PM PDT by mbj
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To: wardaddy

Yes, very impressive courage given the three SWAT members were the ones who actually went in and killed the perp.


433 posted on 05/27/2022 1:30:56 PM PDT by mbj
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To: wardaddy

Right: two did courageously TRY. And tried RIGHT AWAY.

But the shooter had a vote too and it looks like he didn’t play “Call of Duty” for nothing.


434 posted on 05/27/2022 1:33:31 PM PDT by mbj
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To: mbj

They do. They’ll be fine. You take the chance. Actually the father does ideally. But I never trusted my particular elementary school to protect my kids. I homeschooled then put them in private schools and way far from the human trafficking interstate.

Parents have to protect their kids and assessing the level of stupidity of the local cope s and teachers is part of it.


435 posted on 05/27/2022 1:36:44 PM PDT by stanne
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To: mbj

That is in dispute actually

Can’t get their story straight

And so what


436 posted on 05/27/2022 1:37:04 PM PDT by wardaddy (Where did all the same posters go......they cannot have all died ....could they ?)
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To: McGavin999

> Hey let’s just do away with cops

No.

That’s the leftist’s battle cry and I’m opposed.


437 posted on 05/27/2022 1:38:15 PM PDT by mbj
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To: Pelham

LA is a _major_ population center.

The population of Ulvalde was 14,929 at the 2000 census, so it took a while for SWAT to arrive.


438 posted on 05/27/2022 1:40:22 PM PDT by mbj
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To: mbj

Me too, I was being sarcastic.


439 posted on 05/27/2022 1:47:39 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: stanne

> I homeschooled

You have my respect and appreciation. :-)


440 posted on 05/27/2022 1:53:19 PM PDT by mbj
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