Uvalde, Police Hesitate, Both Sides, Gun Groom, Beto Terror, Miami Heat

  • For several days, news reports have had Uvalde police cowering outside the school in fear while the shooter was inside shooting little kids and their teachers. Scotties Playtime finds a new report with a new detail. It seems Uvalde police delayed federal law enforcement from going in to kill the gunman for 30 minutes. Only then did the feds decide to ignore local advice and go on in.
     
    How should this affect our perception of those local police officers?
     
    This would seem to count against police reacting in simple fear. What fear would cause them to pull federal agents back from entering?
     
    This was a peaceful community in which crime waves were on a jaywalking level. Most likely, I think, is that those in command made snap decisions based on a wrong idea of the degree of danger to those kids. Should police charge in and further endanger what they may have thought were child hostages?
     
    I confess to being a support-your-local-police kind of guy, as well as a BLM person. My opinion may change as evidence comes forth. I still see this as a reasonable reaction:


    On the other hand:

  • Legal expert Imani Gandy is unimpressed with the latest story about police hesitation:

  • Dave Dubya discovers one important commonality a whole lot of shootings share.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has certainly done the historical research, coming up with a pretty long list of deadly shootings going all the way back to …well… all the way back to January.
     
    That’s a hell of a lot of violent history for not quite 5 full months.
     
  • PZ Myers runs the death-by-gun data state by state. Missouri, where I live, is not the worst, but’s it’s bad. And Professor Myers runs a timeline, finding the single event that happens to coincide with a national explosion of death. A casual reader might detect a cause-effect relationship.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors walks us past the gun-grooming of kids, dozens of Fox network non-safety solutions to gun violence, Ted Cruz fleeing questions, to a kid hired to drive around with his mom doing a little shopping to prove a horrific point.
     
  • Max’s Dad is the master of funny, entertaining rants. This time, he’s bitter, angry, and eloquent about the killing of infants.
     
  • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz wishes that those who love their firearms would grow tired of people dying.
     
  • It seems Beto O’Rourke caused a bit of discomfort:

  • Dave Columbo has a funny, bitter, valid take on post-shooting press conferences
    @davecolumbo Oh the humanity #democrats #democratsoftiktok #political #politicaltiktok #politics ♬ original sound – Dave Columbo

  • Andy Borowitz reports as a shaken Greg Abbott describes the moment of terror when Beto O’Rourke talked to him.

A few tweets I thought worthy:

And I’m allowed a few of my own:


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2 thoughts on “Uvalde, Police Hesitate, Both Sides, Gun Groom, Beto Terror, Miami Heat”

  1. Uvalde resident Vice President 1933-1941 John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner quote:
    “The Vice-presidency ain’t worth a bucket of warm piss.”
    The update:
    “The Uvalde P.D. ain’t worth a bucket of warm piss.”

  2. much appreciate the bit of sanity here, as well as your inclusion of my blog link here — wishing you a wonderful week 🙂

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