Let's just assume that given the average shot tempo in a mass shooting, 10 second per victim, that everyone who was shot was shot in the first minute and a half or so.
Ask any shock trauma physician about the golden hour:
The golden hour is the period of time immediately after a traumatic injury during which there is the highest likelihood that prompt medical and surgical treatment will prevent death.While the exact cut off isn't precisely 60 minutes, it is a good approximation of the critical interval.
How long the Uvalde's finest wait before entering?
78 minutes.
Would you think that was a long time for your kid to lay bleeding and in agony while the police and medical care were just outside the door, a door that they claimed was locked, but actually wasn't?
Suppose I'm wrong in my minute and a half duration, suppose it took 18 minutes to shoot 18 people? Suppose you daughter was the last to be mortally wounded. Would having her languish bleeding, in pain and terrified for a full hour be A-OK with you? Would it?
Apparently Uvalde's best trained officers, the "elite" SWAT team, had never ever breached a door in a no-knock drug raid and were udderly (the cows!) unfamiliar with the concept.
Would you think that was a long time for your kid to lay bleeding and in agony while the police and medical care were just outside the door, a door that they claimed was locked, but actually wasn't?You've had over an hour to think about it.Suppose I'm wrong in my minute and a half duration, suppose it took 18 minutes to shoot 18 people? Suppose you daughter was the last to be mortally wounded. Would having her languish bleeding, in pain and terrified for a full hour be A-OK with you? Would it?
Would that be OK with you?