Maybe a Texan can explain

It took 40 minutes or more to breach the school and take down the shooter. And when it was done, it was done by a tactical squad from the U.S. Border Patrol -- we are talking about 50+ miles from the border -- that the Texas Governor claims is ineffectual and not doing their job, while Uvalde residents complained their local law enforcement stood around outside doing nothing.

Have y'all asked Gov. Abbott to define effectual without using political labels?

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robb65 · 56-60, M

The distance from the border is irrelevant, Border Patrol operates up to 100-150 miles inland at times and for all we know they were just around the corner when the shooting started.
The notion that law enforcement was just standing around and doing nothing is being disputed. Granted, right now it seems their timeline is a bit fuzzy and they aren't wanting to talk about it but until they fill in the details we really don't know when BP arrived on the scene, who was the first in the building, or why anything took as long as it did. What I'm hearing sounds as if someone managed to keep him contained in one room and that most of the deaths were in that one room. As horrible as that is it could have been much much worse if everyone had been standing around doing nothing.