Add to that happenstance:
Some of the police officers, both on-duty and off-duty, arrived quickly because they had been attending a funeral nearby for a colleague
Maybe if there is always a funeral close to school during school hours attended by a lot of cops we can solve this issue.
Can you imagine how different so many lives would be if the Uvalde police had engaged an eliminated the shooter within 10 minutes.
It seems like the Police actually did what the training says to do, and immediately engage the shooter. I would say that response time probably saved a lot of lives, as well as students and teachers following their training of locking doors and sheltering.
Jesus Christ though, reading up on the gun and ammo this kid had, he was hoping to do a lot more damage than he did.
Yeah, kudos to all the officers involved here that they did the best they could. Just wish as a country we could do better than hope the casualties are kept to a minimum at the next inevitable school shooting. Weird that almost every one of these shootings seems to involve the same type of weapon. Coincidence I guess.
Mr. Earls had pulled out his handgun and opened fire, hoping to strike a man who had just robbed him and his wife at an A.T.M. in Houston.
Instead, he struck Arlene Alvarez, a 9-year-old girl seated in a passing pickup, killing her.
“Is Mr. Earls licensed to carry?” a reporter asked during the February news conference, in which his lawyer spoke for him.
He didn’t need one, the lawyer replied. “Everything about that situation, we believe and contend, was justified under Texas law.” A grand jury later agreed, declining to indict Mr. Earls for any crime.
The shooting was part of what many sheriffs, police leaders and district attorneys in urban areas of Texas say has been an increase in people carrying weapons and in spur-of-the-moment gunfire in the year since the state began allowing most adults 21 or over to carry a handgun without a license.
In the border town of Eagle Pass, drunken arguments have flared into shootings. In El Paso, revelers who legally bring their guns to parties have opened fire to stop fights. In and around Houston, prosecutors have received a growing stream of cases involving guns brandished or fired over parking spots, bad driving, loud music and love triangles.
No statewide shooting statistics have been released since the law went into effect last September. After a particularly violent 2021 in many parts of the state, the picture of crime in Texas has been mixed this year, with homicides and assaults up in some places and down in others.
But what has been clear is that far fewer people are getting new licenses for handguns even as many in law enforcement say the number of guns they encounter on the street has been increasing.
Big city police departments and major law enforcement groups opposed the new handgun law when it came before the State Legislature last spring, worried in part about the loss of training requirements necessary for a permit and more dangers for officers.
But gun rights proponents prevailed in the Republican-dominated Capitol, arguing that Texans should not need the state’s permission to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
'Murica!
It’s the madness of politicians cowarding behind the lowest common denominator voters and championing ideology at the expense of reality.
The ultimate worldview of these people is effectively a balkanization of life of in-groups behind various fences (enclosing various areas), a return to patriarchal, near tribal society based around extended family groups, greater society in a state of near decay, the state withered, impotent and absent. Basically a slow burn, less dramatic, zombie apocolypse. Everything bad that happens in the world is entirely because of decisions made by individuals, and if individuals are bad, the only possible solution is moral renewal through religious conversion.
We’re past the point of blaming politicians at this point, imo. They’re representatives.
I’m interested to hear if the shooter was radicalized by all the right wing hate lately against LBGTQ+ people.
Given that the shooter chose a specific “Drag Night” to target the night club, I think the odds for anti-trans radicalization are high.
Colorado Springs is also the ultra-conservative, ultra religious area of the state
Heavy has confirmed that Aldrich is the grandson of outgoing Republican State Assemblymember Randy Voepel, the former mayor of Santee, California. Voepel represents the 71st district in the San Diego area. There were calls to expel Voepel from the state Assembly after he made comments comparing the January 6 attacks to the Revolutionary War. Aldrich’s mother, Laura Voepel, has written posts praising Randy Voepel on Facebook and confirming he is her father.
Aldrich was arrested in 2021 after his mother reported to police he was threatening to harm her with a homemade bomb and multiple weapons, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. He was arrested after a standoff and charged with six felonies. But he was not prosecuted, records show. The El Paso County district attorney has not commented on why the case was dropped.
So, most likely a member of The Base.
Huh. Huh? Huh. Huh . . . huh?
He’s a white dude in Colorado Springs. Hell, it’s 50/50 whether he gets prosecuted for murdering five people and injuring 25 more.
Who among us hasn’t gotten a pass on six felony counts after our stand off with the Sheriff?
I’m not as hardcore as Evans, but I think there is merit to the idea.
It’s certainly better than showing them in their church clothes or the like that the media trends towards.
proud boys will be boys