signalmankenneth
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It's not school security or mental illness or anything else—it’s just all the guns.
If there’s one lesson we should draw from the horror at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tx, it's that we cannot rely just on school guards, calling 911, or tepid “solutions” by extremist politicians to safeguard our school children. Or to protect people in supermarkets, houses of worship, or any other public settings targeted for mass carnage.
In disastrous press conferences, Texas public safety officials struggled to explain the long law enforcement delay in responding, up to an hour while large numbers of officers were on scene before stopping the bloodletting. "They did contain him in the classroom," intoned Steve McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety. "Contained" in that classroom, the shooter had all the time he needed to murder 19 children and two teachers.
There apparently was no armed guard on the premises when the gunman walked through the door. Would it have mattered? It didn't at the Tops Market May 14 in Buffalo when an overmatched armed security guard was killed by more heavily armed mass killer, in this case a white supremacist who drove 200 miles to terrorize a Black neighborhood.
At both the school and the grocery store, the real problem was not lack of a security guard or even the delay in police response. In Uvalde, "the first thing (the shooter) did when he turned 18" was to legally purchase two AR platform rifles, at a local federal firearms licensee and to buy 375 rounds of ammunition, just days earlier, reported Texas State Sen. John Whitmire.
He didn’t buy all that lethal hardware to hunt deer, he did it to slaughter human beings. Similarly, the Buffalo racist murderer bought the rifle used in his racist rampage—a Bushmaster XM-15—from an upstate New York gun dealer shortly after he turned 18. According to The Trace, which tracks gun violence, both teenage gunmen acquired their rifles legally, through federally licensed dealers. Both transfers were in compliance with state law.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/27/problem-guns-guns-guns-guns
If there’s one lesson we should draw from the horror at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tx, it's that we cannot rely just on school guards, calling 911, or tepid “solutions” by extremist politicians to safeguard our school children. Or to protect people in supermarkets, houses of worship, or any other public settings targeted for mass carnage.
In disastrous press conferences, Texas public safety officials struggled to explain the long law enforcement delay in responding, up to an hour while large numbers of officers were on scene before stopping the bloodletting. "They did contain him in the classroom," intoned Steve McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety. "Contained" in that classroom, the shooter had all the time he needed to murder 19 children and two teachers.
There apparently was no armed guard on the premises when the gunman walked through the door. Would it have mattered? It didn't at the Tops Market May 14 in Buffalo when an overmatched armed security guard was killed by more heavily armed mass killer, in this case a white supremacist who drove 200 miles to terrorize a Black neighborhood.
At both the school and the grocery store, the real problem was not lack of a security guard or even the delay in police response. In Uvalde, "the first thing (the shooter) did when he turned 18" was to legally purchase two AR platform rifles, at a local federal firearms licensee and to buy 375 rounds of ammunition, just days earlier, reported Texas State Sen. John Whitmire.
He didn’t buy all that lethal hardware to hunt deer, he did it to slaughter human beings. Similarly, the Buffalo racist murderer bought the rifle used in his racist rampage—a Bushmaster XM-15—from an upstate New York gun dealer shortly after he turned 18. According to The Trace, which tracks gun violence, both teenage gunmen acquired their rifles legally, through federally licensed dealers. Both transfers were in compliance with state law.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/27/problem-guns-guns-guns-guns
