Missed warning signsSome might look to reflect on the degradation of our public servants over the past few years, and how we're left with such caliber of uncertainty, particularly with regard to the brass. Perhaps it's also worth looking at how all the early indicators were missed in an era of censorship and cancellation over political discourse, while missing the real threats to our civilization. Time after time, these lunatics crave an attentive audience and telegraph intentions (no social media head's up to authorities?). While still others wonder why every school in America doesn't have armed, on-duty resource officers as staff members in an obviously more deranged era ever since Columbine. That speaks not only to the questions of mental health in our young Americans, but also their spiritual health of lost identity in a lost culture. Definitely failures on numerous levels with devastating consequences.Following a spate of mass shootings in Texas, the Uvalde school district invested in social media monitoring, campus police, and teacher training to prevent future tragedies. These early prevention measures did not flag 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos as a threat, even though he talked with numerous classmates and strangers online about guns and school shootings.No officer on campus at start of shootingDespite the Uvalde school district investing tens of thousands of dollars in security and training for an active shooter in recent years, no school police officer was on the scene when Ramos arrived on campus.A mistaken tactical call and 19 officers waiting nearly an hourOnce Ramos was inside the school, officers made a crucial tactical error and temporarily considered the active shooting stage of the incident over, believing a barricaded standoff would begin instead. As a result, a group of as many as 19 officers stood in a hallway outside the classroom where Ramos was inside slaughtering students, waiting for backup and tactical equipment.Stopping one SWAT team, and another going absentEven once elite reinforcements with gear like ballistic shields arrived, there were delays. ... Specially trained agents with the force’s Bortac SWAT team drove from the US-Mexico border to assist responding officers in Uvalde. ... The group was baffled why local officers told them to temporarily wait, according to the newspaper, and unsure why the Uvalde PD’s own SWAT team was not already on the scene.Failing to find a keyEventually, a group of Uvalde police, federal agents, and county deputies did prepare to breach the classroom where Ramos was hiding. They would’ve done so sooner, but the door into the room was locked... Border Patrol agents were only able to get into the room once a school staff member got them a key, raising questions about whether the school had common security features like a master box of room keys accessible to law enforcement—or whether police thought to ask.Keeping parents in the darkAs all this was going on inside the school, parents were massed outside, where they desperately pled with heavily armed officers to go inside and save their kids. Instead, some were harassed, handcuffed, and tased by police on scene.
But simultaneously with the reports of the massacre, the Left launch the narrative. It's constantly about the gun for them, and not the twisted mind of the person wielding it. The Left immediately begin their misinformed protest parades, spouting off how there have been 27 mass school shootings just this year, when there's actually been 13 SINCE 1966, NOT THIS YEAR ALONE. But this fallacy is repeated just like the myth that the US leads the world in mass shootings. Again, FALSE. Facts don't stop their media pundits or political elites from spreading the lies, though, because that might disrupt their narrative on control and shine a light on the actual problem of evil.
We as a People must better prepare for it, recognize the indicators, communicate, and be willing to stand up to it without hesitation. It's never gonna be ideal, but the time for mistakes must be over for the sake of our progeny.
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Beta O’Rourke averts eyes, plays deaf when asked repeatedly: “How do you feel exploiting dead kids?”
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Some Families of Victims Outraged By Biden Visit to Uvalde
ADDENDUM: After Uvalde, the latest media narrative has been to soften what a mass shooting is to include inner city gang parties and biker gang shootings (much of what they never report on, ironically), particularly over Memorial Day, and attempt to equate those to these massacres committed by a lone gunman, all while continuing to push the lie that these occurrences are only an American problem, ignoring the factual data that shows otherwise, and also continuing to ignore the astonishing rise of mental illness (inclusive of pathological rage, undiagnosed ailment, family collapse, and the culmination of all these factors) over the past few decades, always in favor of disarming the citizenry instead.
Also, this question that I've had from the start continues to remain a mystery that the at-large media seems unconcerned with...
From a Wendy's salary? Something doesn't square about that burger. But even so, it might've helped if someone had just said something, because many saw the hints dropped. This is a critical area where we have to do better.It’s not adding up!
— Desi (@Desi_3650) June 1, 2022
Some of us already know what went down and who the people are responsible. pic.twitter.com/gMrAP73ZY2
Related links: Ted Cruz explains the truth about school shootings after leftist reporter confronted him in Uvalde
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School Shootings Aren’t Caused By Faulty Gun Laws But By The Collapse Of The Family
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