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A Duck on a Bike's avatar

That this jackass, POS shooter had basically free run of the place for nearly an hour, while the police sat outside because they didn't want to get shot? Shameful

Note to the sheriff who said he didn't want his deputies to get shot: That is, and I can not possibly say this in a nicer way, YOUR JOB. I would much rather a policeman be shot at than children. Children needed to smear blood on their faces and fake their death... for an hour. Your job, as a cop who is trained in the matter, is to stand in front of the innocent and take the bullet if that is what it means. You have a vest, you have a gun, you can return fire and save a life. IF you waited outside, fearful of taking a shot, you are a coward and are not worthy of your badge. Resign.

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Julia Ioffe: Evidently a reporter for The Atlantic, who also wrote for the WaPo. Typical. Another example of why you should check on "reporting" nowadays.

No, Biden might not praise the BP agent who killed the murderer; then again, it may be the other cops all stood outside for 40 MINUTES while children were murdered, so I'd hold back on the praise. From the WSJ:

"Ms. Gomez, a farm supervisor, said that she was one of numerous parents waiting outside the school who began encouraging—first politely, and then with more urgency—police and other law enforcement to enter the school sooner. After a few minutes, she said, U.S. Marshals put her in handcuffs, telling her she was being arrested for actively intervening in an active investigation.

Ms. Gomez convinced local Uvalde police officers whom she knew to persuade the marshals to set her free. Around her, the scene was frantic. She said she saw a father tackled and thrown to the ground by police and a third pepper-sprayed. Once freed from her cuffs, Ms. Gomez made her distance from the crowd, jumped the school fence, and ran inside to grab her two children. She sprinted out of the school with them."

So the cops allegedly didn't go in for the killer, but cuffed and pepper-sprayed parents. You'd think they were at a school board meeting or something.

I'm not going to talk about guns either way; the children haven't been buried yet; I despise Biden for politicizing even this tragedy.

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