“Anything that allows me to point the finger of blame somewhere else.”"I was misled ... the information that I was given turned out in part to be inaccurate. And I'm absolutely livid about that" -- Greg Abbott on his initial false statement portraying Uvalde first responders as heroes pic.twitter.com/dUIdxnicjm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2022
Not the part you’re thinking about.——>>>>In Uvalde, the Most Enraging Press Conference in American History - The Bulwark https://t.co/WInRRlbTiM
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) May 27, 2022
McCraw followed that remark by making a rather revealing point. In defense of the officers on scene he said that there was “a barrage—hundreds of rounds were pumped in four minutes into those classrooms.”Hundreds of rounds. Four minutes. When you cut away all the bullshit, and excuse making, and failure this is the crux of the matter.In the coming days there will be a desire to obsess only over the unfathomable failures of those who were charged with keeping these kids safe. The poor teacher who left a door ajar. The MIA resource officer. The cops, excuse me—the SWAT Team—that posed on Facebook in tactical gear with weapons of war looking like they were prepared to head to the Donbas, but were apparently unequipped to take on a lone teenager who was slaughtering their town’s children.But the main thing to take away from all of that is not that their failure can be reversed. It’s that in a nation with 130,000 schools there will always be some kind of human error when responding to an active shooter. God willing those errors won’t be as catastrophic as they were in Uvalde. But there will always be errors.Parkland had an armed officer and the single point of entryn that the “door control” crowd is now so obsessed with. Sandy Hook was breached by the killer firing through a window next to a locked security door. Santa Fe High School in Texas had put in place a school shooting plan with armed officers, before 10 were killed.
Condemning calls for "more gun control," Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) wonders aloud whether "fatherlessness" and "the breakdown of families" are to blame for mass shootings. pic.twitter.com/jnWTAkuVV9
— The Recount (@therecount) May 25, 2022
Or...church attendance?Condemning calls for "more gun control," Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) wonders aloud whether "fatherlessness" and "the breakdown of families" are to blame for mass shootings. pic.twitter.com/jnWTAkuVV9
— The Recount (@therecount) May 25, 2022
And this could become an IRL meme./2 it’s startling how performatively stupid these are getting, like cult beliefs you have to accept to show devotion to the cult.
— NotNOWMonkeypoxHat (@Popehat) May 27, 2022
Abbott may wish he’d gone to the NRA, anyway.Dem interrupts Greg Abbott presser to demand action on gun safety: ‘You have to do something man’ https://t.co/0gEtFWwnC2
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 27, 2022
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