After a year and a half, the final report on the Uvalde Massacre was released last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it told us something we knew within about a year of the Columbine Massacre – because the Secret Service reported it, after doing a deep study of spree killers: when someone is engaged in a spree killing (a mass murder with no other motivation), the best response is to meet them with violent opposition. Spree killers almost invariably operate in a psychotic reverie – and violent resistance shatters that fugue state. The directive: Don’t negotiate. Don’t wait for SWAT. Go in – if you’re a cop, do it as soon as you have another cop to cover you. Move in in mutualliy-supporting groups of 2-4 cops, and get rounds on target. If nothing else, violent resistance breaks the fugure state, and usually causes the spree killer to give up or kill themselves. (The Secret Service report didn’t endorse armed civilian resistance – but the real-world record shows a myriad of cases of regular schnooks ending spree killings<\/a>. It’s the principle, not the actor, that gets the spree killer to point the gun at their own head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And the Uvalde cops? Like the Parkland cops before them, they didn’t forget all <\/em>their training…:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Eleven officers from the Uvalde school district and Uvalde Police Department arrived on the scene within three minutes of the shooter\u2019s entry into the school. Five advanced initially and two were hit by shrapnel. Police made three attempts to enter the classrooms, which are adjoined by an interior door.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n