Now I Remember Why I Don’t Watch Cable News

Opinion | Uvalde police understandably didn’t enter the school for an hour because they couldn’t decide which door to use. In the future, let’s simplify that decision for our law enforcement officers.

by Ted Cruz

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) May 26, 2022

 Well, first because I don’t have cable anymore.

But I’m stuck in a hotel room watching CNN report endlessly in the Uvalde massacre. They are spending a lot of time this morning on the fact they can’t get a definitive timeline or whether (and why not?) police fired on the shooter before he became a shooter but was just a guy carrying a gun illegally in a school campus.

Also, how did he barricade himself in the classroom? By locking the door (as AP reports)? Did he pile up furniture like a Three Stooges sketch? Did he bring an Acme Portable Barricade? And why didn’t (probably I’ll-equipped) police get a key and storm that room? 

Which, considering other police were busy evacuating people, might have led to dead police officers and the shooter running free in the building.

So why didn’t they just blow the door and go in with guns blazing?

Inquiring minds want to know! And they want to know why they don’t know NOW!!!!!

Because obviously that’s the real issue now that the shooting’s over and we’ve seen the videos of grieving parents ad nauseum.  

I really hate cable news.

(Maybe the worst part is “experts saying that, since Columbine, we expect officers to put themselves between the shooter and the students (their words, not mine). All cops wear body armor all the time? Blue lives matter, except where the 2bd Amendment is concerned? One more dead body matters? I really hate cable news.)

The only comfort is, nobody will be asking these stupid questions (“WHY DON’T WE KNOW YET?”) by the weekend.

Speaking of cable news:

Herschel Walker's solution to school shootings involves "a department that can look at young men that's looking at women that's looking at social media." pic.twitter.com/WAi7a4mwgz

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 26, 2022

When people say the solution is more police, they mean the kind of police they encounter on television. https://t.co/9bhUBTJAyt

— Kerry Howley (@KerryHowley) May 26, 2022

And just because I can’t eat just one:

i saw this headline and thought it was from today, but it was from 2018. pic.twitter.com/BF7hZ7UYiG

— Pam Vogel (@pamela_vogel) May 25, 2022