By now, you’ve certainly heard that authorities handcuffed a mother who was trying to get past the police to get to her children inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Parents were jumping the fence to get inside while police staged themselves around the school. Here’s how the guy who shot Osama bin Laden thinks things should have been handled:
Kids are getting murdered. Get in the room. End of story.
— Robert J. O'Neill (@mchooyah) May 28, 2022
It’s not so simple — there’s a narrative going around that the police were outgunned by the school shooter. If that were true, we should scrap defunding the police and get them some bigger guns. David Frum says that condemning the police isn’t the right move, seeing as the 18-year-old shooter was too dangerous and too difficult for them to handle. Don’t call them cowardly; instead, restrict firearms so that only police have “assault weapons.”
If a gunman in a school is too difficult and dangerous for a typical local police force to handle, the right response is not to condemn local police forces as cowardly. The right response is to discredit the "good guy with a gun" fantasy.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 27, 2022
Option 1:
Defend American schoolchildren by deploying thousands of hunter-killer kamikaze super-cops
Option 2:
Restrict firearms.
The rest of the civilized world chooses 2. It's not really such a baffling problem.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 27, 2022
We only needed one hunter-killer kamikaze super-cop there, at the single point of entry to the school. How about Option 3: Have a single point of entry. No, we can’t do that! That’s crazy talk!
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You identify with cowards because you are one.
— ol' Bill Deal (@chrismcm66) May 28, 2022
If saving children's lives from monsters is too dangerous for you, Dave, just cower behind the sofa as usual.
— D.W.Robinson – ANTI UTOPIAN KILLJOY (@_DWRobinson) May 27, 2022
Was the gunman too difficult for the cops? Has that been established? Or are we cutting the cops slack in order to make a point?
— StarlitAtrocity (@StarlitAtrocity) May 28, 2022
Or both. Those police units had just completed training on handling exactly that kind of situation! It did not involve standing around and waiting.
— Scott Rauland (@smrauland) May 27, 2022
I would hope a “local police force” would be able to at least engage with a lone gunman in a school. I’m not minimizing the risk, but the situation called for immediate action.
— Scott Lieberman (@Scottl1971) May 27, 2022
Um, this SWAT team doesn’t look outgunned to us:
Uvalde, TX spends an astronomical 40% of its budget on police – including its own SWAT Team. We now know that the Uvalde SWAT Team, posing here with their automatic weapons and body armor, couldn't locate team members and was a "no show" on the bloodiest day in Uvalde's history. pic.twitter.com/cJFmdpJ7Ql
— Peter Vroom 📫🌊 (@PeterVroom1) May 27, 2022
Lemme get this straight. A trained SWAT team vs. untrained teenager. Teenager is too much for the SWAT team?
— Amos Wise (@amoswiseblog) May 28, 2022
There should have been a good guy with a gun to stop the shooter before he made it inside the building, but as we’ve since learned, there wasn’t. There are plenty of “good guy with a gun” stories that don’t make national news.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 27, 2022
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