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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SRO did not even try. Any normally constituted adult would have risked their lives to try to prevent the certain death of many kids. Also the shooter had already shot his grandma. Local schools should have been on lock-down and the SROs should have been ready when he arrived and crashed the truck. Those poor kids died alone hoping someone would come to their rescue. [/quote]

But even apart from that, the police were right on him, correct? And waited an hour and a half? If that is now established fact, there needs to be some kind of federal investigation, public Congressional hearings, and I’d support - with family consent - blurred face photos of the deceased to show AR damage to the victims. This is insane. I’m not aware of this kind of pussy-footing in the response to active shooter scenes. The Uvalde victims were sacrificed in part BY the law enforcement officers on the scene because of their cowardice. Call it what it is! [/quote]

You don’t need blurred face photos of the victims. Their faces have been mangled beyond recognition by high velocity automatic gunfire. That’s why they have needed DNA to match each pile of blood and mangled flesh to a set a of parents - they are UNRECOGNIZABLE.

Law enforcement support for an assault weapons ban - at least at the leadership level - has been very strong for decades. They lobbied to have the ban renewed when it was set to expire in 2003. Law enforcement officers know better than anyone the devastating effects of these weapons and that they are no match for them carrying their standard issue 9mm handguns.

People are outraged about the delay in LEOs entering the school. Those kids and teachers were dead within minutes of his entering that classroom. There are articles on the internet by trauma surgeons describing the damage to the human body caused by high velocity bullets from assault weapons. These wounds are nearly always unsurvivable, even with immediate medical attention.

WAKE UP PEOPLE. GET OFF THE INTERNET AND GET INTO THE FIGHT FOR GUN SAFETY LEGISLATION. [b]I live in a state where these weapons are still banned, as well as high capacity magazines. The relief is real. Go out there and get involved and make it happen for your kids, too.[/quote][/b]

Do you really feel relieved, PP? I live in Maryland where assault weapons are banned but I feel no relief whatsoever. Because anyone could drive over from the American Legion Bridge and shoot up my kids' school. 
Its too easy. [/quote]

I recognize it is still possible for someone to get such weapons in another state and travel back here with them, but the likelihood of an impulsive teenager having that capacity to do all that travel and planning is small. This teenager went to his local gun shop and purchase an arsenal. I wonder if the gun shop owner engaged him in any conversation at all about his intentions?

We still have too many gun deaths in Massachusetts- but the rate is very low compared to elsewhere. I don’t know why you people in red states tolerate this wholly unnecessary death toll.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/24/us-gun-violence-deaths-massachusetts-expert[/quote]

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