Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:Joe Dokes from Como Park emails:
It’s incidents like these which make people look at Uvalde and say, “Hmmmmm.”
An attempted mass shooting at a school was thwarted when the shooter found doors were locked, the school had an armed officer on scene, and responding police officers took prompt, effective action to end the threat. In other words, the system worked exactly as it should, exactly the way Conservatives have spent the last two weeks saying it would, because the people responsible for school safety did their jobs. Give them all a medal, they deserve it.
Which makes us wonder – why didn’t it work in Uvalde? An incredibly long string of coincidental but accidental failures, or a glow-in-the-dark operation intended to stir up public support for gun control just when the ‘President’ needs a wag-the-dog distraction from the unfolding disaster that is the Lesko Brandon administration?
Hmmmmm.
Joe Doakes
Given the craven depravity with which the Lesko Brandon administration is running things, it seems simultaneously like a conspiracy theory and documentary evidence.
It is utterly amazing that the newest (and apparently likely to succeed) gun-control efforts are built on this.
and isn’t it suspicious that the new bill would not help one iota to prevent any of the shootings, only disarm law-abiding citizens.
The Texas state police director said police could have stopped the Uvalde shooter within 3 minutes and faced *0* locked doors, yet did not because of the inexplicable hesitation of the incident commander, who put officer safety ahead of rescuing kids.
“Uvalde school police chief “decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” Texas DPS director says”
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/21/texas-dps-mccraw-uvalde-school-shooting/
Thank you, E. That’s exactly the point I wanted someone to make.
When Liberals insist that nobody needs a gun to protect his family – that he should rely on the police because they’re trained experts – we need to remember Uvalde, where the police didn’t just stand around watching as children died, the police actually prevented parents from trying to rescue their children.
We can’t disarm the entire nation. We can’t lock up every nutjob. But we can take common sense precautions to protect our children including simple things like locked doors and armed security. We know they work. Why do Liberals refuse to let us do them? Why do they WANT children to remain vulnerable?
Are they actually hoping for another slaughter of innocents to justify their plans?
I can’t even . . .
Never take police at their word.
A man wandering around in body armor with an AR-15 caused multiple 911 calls, cops came but determined what he was doing was legal under Oklahoma’s “constitutional carry” law, but arrested him because he was in possession of brass knuckles, which are illegal.
“Broken Arrow open-carry incident raises law enforcement questions”
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/broken-arrow-open-carry-incident-raises-law-enforcement-questions/article_a5f4a2d8-edb3-11ec-806d-bb938b4a6b13.html
Is you blood boiling yet? Well it just may well after you process this:
The cop husband of a teacher murdered in the Uvalde school shooting tried to rush in and save her after she called to tell him she had been shot but was stopped by colleagues who took away his gun. Ruben Ruiz, an Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officer, was rushing to his wife’s aid when he was detained in a hallway at Robb Elementary School during the shooting which left 19 students and two teachers dead last month.
Well sure, they couldn’t let a cop rush in to make the gunman mad. He might have hurt someone.
Emery is now suggesting that the police enforce non-existent laws.
And it wasn’t just “brass knuckles,” the guy was in possession of an illegal handgun.
Emery is really working hard to become Director of the Department of Pre-Crime, isn’t he?
And, BTW, the Tulsa County DA says the guy was probably hoping to be arrested so he could then sue the local PD for arresting him w/o cause.
Aside from the weapons violation, the guy was careful to obey the law. He did not carry his weapons that had signage banning firearms.
Don’t count on the police to always be there to protect the kids.
“POLICE HAVE NO DUTY TO PROTECT YOU, FEDERAL COURT AFFIRMS YET AGAIN” https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again
I’m sadly reminded of the old adage, When seconds are the difference between life and death, the police are only minutes (hours) away. If they bother to come at all, I guess.
Agreed with JPA as well on the new gun control bill. It would not have done anything to make either Buffalo or Uvalde less lethal, but it would make liberals feel good about themselves and give the BATFE more laws to ignore and work around.
Really, if you want to reduce the butcher’s bill, we’ve learned the hard way that you simply need to devote resources to put criminals in jail, and that when you stop doing this, things go to H*** in a hurry. For some odd reason, criminals with their mugshots, fingerprints and DNA on file at the FBI often choose different career paths that do not involve leaving their fingerprints and DNA at crrime scenes, or their visages on security cameras. A good start would be to ask Merrick Garland why he’s not implementing Project Exile nationwide.