The response at Uvalde is a growing understanding of poor police response. We saw it in San Bernardino and Parkland, Florida. These police are not trained for combat and that is what they are meeting up with when they respond to a school killing.
Sure the legislature has given the police all kinds of permission to proceed in school shootings, but, where is the urban warfare training? The presence of weapons of war on the streets of America changes the idea of domestic tranquility. There is no domestic tranquility anymore.
The entire idea that the Second Amendment is empowering the public to act in dangerous situations is nonsense. That is not happening. I doubt it was happening when it was written. The Second Amendment of the USA Constitution empowers a militia. It allowed colonists to become a military unit to take their country away from the British crown. Now, today, that capacity is used as a reason to act against a government. I think the Second Amendment is useless. It is more of a danger than a deterrent to violence.
The police should be reviewed for crimes. What comes to mind is negligent homicide in the practice of policing. Manslaughter or murder might apply if it was a conscience decision to allow the killing to occur.
The Uvalde shooting involved minority Americans. The character of the police involved needs to be reviewed to understand if they held any prejudices. I realize the husband of one of the victims were among the police. There were other officers. All of them need an ethics review in regard to their view of the people they are empowered to protect.
The reason there are angry young men that plan to attack completely innocent and unarmed Americans, including and especially children, is because a culture of hate is allowed to propagate in the USA. Hate's response is fear. Those two components drive the demand for guns in the USA. Currently there are so many guns on the streets, including safes in homes, in the USA it is impossible to stop this wave of violence.
Weapons of war are not reasonable possessions in a country that prides itself on domestic tranquility and peace. The element of these weapons in society is providing a chronic issue that until confronted will never end. The entire epidemic of violence in the USA has to be a concern for every legislator at every level of government. The allowance of firearms by liberalized laws intended to allow personal protection IS NOT WORKING! The menace that is allowed today in the name of personal safety is a monster that needs to be handled. Background checks accompanied by extensive training and limiting concealed carry permits is a good beginning. The Assault Weapons Ban must return and be the law of the land. The Assault Weapons Ban WORKED. Nothing else is working. To ignore the epidemic of violence is to neglect one's oath of office to the people they are suppose to protect and serve at all levels of government.
The day of the gun slinger is long over, it is time our laws and our streets reflect that.
By Edgar Sandoval and J. David Goodman
Uvalde - Families of those killed in a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, (click here) in May voiced a mix of sorrow and anger on Wednesday after seeing a video showing how armed officers stood around waiting before confronting the gunman.
For the first time, the delayed response that had been exhaustively described and debated could be seen in all its agonizing detail, rekindling the outrage at officers who failed to rush to the aid of children inside two classrooms where 19 students were killed, along with two teachers.
The parents, who had fought for weeks to gain clarity on what exactly took place inside Robb Elementary School on May 24, were finally able to watch part of the minute-by-minute police response along with viewers around the country after The Austin American-Statesman and KVUE posted the video on Tuesday....
