..."systemic failures and egregious poor decision making"...
In the US Army, 400 personnel is the equivalent of 2 companies of soldiers (click here). This will happen again. These are the 400 good guys with guns. They failed to save lives. Police officers are not combat trained with AR-15s. This is happen again and again until those lousy weapons of war are removed from the streets of the United States of America.
It is just the one truth no one wants to talk about.
Legislators don't want to make the gun lobby angry and there are all those right wing insurrectionists that want to run the country their way without a constitution. The insurrectionists love their guns.
400 police officers or to be politically correct, 400 law enforcement officials were at Uvalde. They are as worried for their own lives no matter what any piece of paper from a legislature says.
July 17, 2022By Jake Bleiberg and Paul J. Weber
Uvalde - Nearly 400 law enforcement officials (click here) rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, but “systemic failures” created a chaotic scene that lasted more than an hour before the gunman who took 21 lives was finally confronted and killed, according to a report from investigators released Sunday.
The nearly 80-page report was the first to criticize both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in the South Texas town for the bewildering inaction by heavily armed officers as a gunman fired inside a fourth-grade classroom.
“At Robb Elementary, law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety,” the report said....