Here's the thing - they will need to sue their own police department and municipality. Local taxes on the victims will just go up to pay out the damages. The police budget will probably go up after this pathetic show of cowardice. |
If we're at war with our own civilians because we allow them AR-15s, you don't think that's a problem |
Do you know who knew what was going on those poor little kids and teachers?. And the men and women who are paid to protect them failed them dearly. That includes the cops, the mayor and the governor. If cops don't want to engage in AR-15, you don't think that should be illegal to have one |
They didnt even breach, CBP did. The local cops were somewhere between useless and part of the problem |
To be fair, there was reporting saying some cops did breach the perimeter to rescue their own children while waiting for some good guys with guns to show up. |
| This is beyond sickening. If they were too cowardly to go in to stop the shooter with all of their fancy gear and weapons, they should have at least let the parents go in to try to save their babies. Why are we funding police if they won’t even try to save kids being shot at school?? Un-freaking-real and makes me sick to my stomach. |
How many cops with body armor, ar-15s, and training are needed to stop one 18 year old with an ar-15, no training and no body armor? None, it takes an unarmed middle aged doctor, an armed senior citizen mall cop, or an off duty border patrol agent to do anything. |
But the police were afwaid. That guy had an assault weapon, after all! Heroes all! |
+1 After Columbine, American police strategy in response to mass shootings like this changed, and the goal became to respond and confront the shooter as fast as possible. This is basic knowledge for every cop. Even under the cops’ own rules, they absolutely failed here. |
| If the cops don't want to confront an AR-15 clad gunman, then maybe they should not be legal? |
They most definitely should not be legal. |
Why do policemen always support and vote for Republican politicians who want to put an AR-15 in everyone’s hand—including 18 year olds? I don’t get it at all. |
This is what disgusts me the most (on top of this already disgusting situation). You stop parents from trying to save their kids? The cops go in to save their kids and then force parents to STAND OUTSIDE while their kids are murdered? It is so sick I can’t imagine having the will to live as one of those cops. That should haunt their thoughts forever. |
Not the rank and file, but there was some pushback among police chiefs against the GOP for letting the federal assault weapons ban expire in 2004. It was ignored. |
Yes, the proliferation of guns in the population makes law enforcement much riskier and deadly for everyone. Everyone. We have to stop the arms race. |