Really hard to overstate the incompetence of the police in the Uvalde shooting
as more and more information about the events roll out it only makes me more disgusted.
According to DPS Director Steve McGraw who said twice that the cops were the ones who barricaded the shooter into a classroom. In addition to it coming out that the cops rushed into the school to save THEIR OWN kids.
Its hard not to interpret this as the "police barricaded the shooter in a classroom full of kids so they would have time to rescue their own kids"
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There are proximate causes and there are root causes. The fact that mass shootings occur so often in the US, and barely occur anywhere else suggests that we need to address the root causes. Mass shootings are on the rise in the US, although the pandemic put a damper on them:
The majority of gun owners would accept common sense gun control measures, but legislatures never even debate them! Why not??
