Being “outgunned” does not appear to be the case. pic.twitter.com/EEvwlAdaeE — Gun Facts (@gunfacts) March 22, 2023 Uvalde police who responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting told investigators they were scared of the shooter’s military-style rifle. Our police are outgunned. “Our police are outgunned,” they worry. So naturally, law abiding citizens must once again … Read more
By Lee Williams My heart sinks every time I see breaking-news graphics announce another school shooting. It’s like a gut-punch…the lost lives, the suffering of the wounded, the horrors the first responders must encounter, and the families that will never again be whole. The blame and blood-dancing usually start before the bodies are even recovered. … Read more
If, like most of America, you’ve moved on and haven’t been paying attention to the continued fallout from the manifold failures at Robb Elementary School that made the Uvalde school shooting far worse than it should have been, developments there continue to unfold, surprising even the most cynical among us. Yesterday, the Uvalde School District … Read more
By Acacia Coronado and Paul J. Weber, AP Even though Uvalde’s school police chief is now gone, Mario Jimenez doesn’t feel any safer about sending his 10-year-old son back to class for the first time since his teacher was shot at Robb Elementary School. “There were a lot more officers that were there and they … Read more
By Jake Bleiberg and Acacia Coronado, AP After the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School in May, Jesse Rizo was worried about his old friend, police chief Pete Arredondo. Blame for the botched police response was being directed heavily at Arredondo when Rizo texted him just days after the shooting: “Been thinking of and praying … Read more
By Lindsay Whitehurst, AP A total of 376 officers converged on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — more than the entire police force in a midsize American city like Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or Tempe, Arizona. But for more than 70 minutes on May 24, not one stopped the shooter. Amid the sounds of continuing gunfire emanating … Read more
Other than the attacker, the Committee did not find any “villains” in the course of its investigation. There is no one to whom we can attribute malice or ill motives. Instead, we found systemic failures and egregious poor decision making. We recognize that that the impact of this tragedy is felt most profoundly by the … Read more
[Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin] said he agreed the video “needed to be released,” but he complained about the Statesman’s edits to the footage and said the victims families should’ve been the first to see the footage when the city intended to release it. “That was the most chicken way to put this video out,” McLaughlin … Read more
Earlier today, a report indicated that a Texas House committee would release hallway video of the Uvalde school shooting police response on Sunday after showing it to the families of victims and survivors. However, the Austin American-Statesman has gotten a copy of the video and just posted it. The video includes exterior footage of the … Read more
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