The latest reporting from the New York Times says 19 police officers staged outside the classroom where the Uvalde school shooter had barricaded himself in, and 78 minutes elapsed before they entered. As Twitchy reported, David Frum has said it’s the wrong approach to say that the police were cowardly; the gunman was just “too difficult and dangerous for a typical local police force to handle.” Frum also believes this discredits the “good guy with a gun” fantasy.
It seems we’re not blaming the police because they were clearly outgunned. MSNBC columnist Katelyn Burns says the AR-15 should be banned if it’s so dangerous that a squad of police is too afraid to confront a shooter holding one.
If a weapon is so dangerous that a squad of police officers are too afraid to confront a single person wielding it, that weapon should be banned.
— Katelyn Burns (@transscribe) May 26, 2022
A new urban legend is born.
— Michael Morse (@mmorsepfd) May 28, 2022
— Amygator 🐊 *not an actual alligator (@AmyA1A) May 27, 2022
A weapon that police and the government fear? What happened to “you can’t take on the US military with your little AR” ?
— WholeHandInCheese (@MichelReuchon) May 27, 2022
President Biden reminded all of those gun nuts last summer that they’d need F-15s and some nukes if they had any plans on taking on the U.S. government — an extension of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s warning that the government has “legit” nukes, and it would be a short war.
And yet parents were fighting police to enter the building.
— Smelly Skelly 🏴 (@yaaachooo) May 27, 2022
So, once the AR-15 is banned, who’s going to confiscate all of them if the police are too afraid?
Man if a squad of cops is afraid to confront one AR-15 imagine how fun it will be to forcibly confiscate 20 million of them https://t.co/Ccsmlf0NJS
— Bennett's Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) May 27, 2022
Liberal white women “logic”
— Ghostlimb78 (@ghostlimb78) May 27, 2022
I thought we didn’t stand a chance against the state with our AR 15s? Looks like we get a few gender confused teens with AR 15s and the police will be so frightened we could take DC in a day
— Dago Supremacy (@DagoSupremacy) May 27, 2022
https://twitter.com/schwinn_charles/status/1530518020271001600
20 million? Closer to 400 million
— Aegisjhalmur🏴☠️ 🇺🇲🇿🇦🇿🇼 (@aegisjhalmur) May 28, 2022
400 million in 90 million pairs of hands.
— White Panther, Monkeypox Warrior (@CharlesDavidWa6) May 27, 2022
They’ve got contingency plans:
They don’t confiscate them. If you are registered owner you are fined daily until you turn in. If you don’t pay your fine, they take what equity you have to pay the fine, or garnish your wages.
— Dragontail1 (@Dragontail110) May 28, 2022
“Registered owner”. Dude, there is no registry.
— Gilbert Gumbo (@Gilbert__Gumbo) May 28, 2022
Hot take: Let everyone kill each other.
Guns need to be confiscated to save lives, I don’t care how many dead gun owners and feds it takes
— Zach W (@ZWass777) May 27, 2022
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Update:
Great minds …
If 19 armed police inside PLUS 150 police outside, were afraid to engage ONE 18 year-old with an AR-15, the only solution is to ban AR-15 style rifles, period!
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) May 27, 2022
You forgot the part where a lone Border Patrol agent stopped him. https://t.co/Zp1kk0sCwJ
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) May 28, 2022
Related:
David Frum explains why it’s the wrong response to condemn the police at Uvalde as cowardly https://t.co/5xAaSQtEze
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 28, 2022
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