Should they be considered Heroes or not?

[LeftHappy]

Has anyone recognized the analogy of how schools are meant to kill off the American economy vs. what the 2nd amendment is there for?

[BCA6010]

The police department failed miserably, the county sheriff's office probably also failed miserably, the school not only failed but needs to be investigated for corruption since the government funding for improved security and a resource officer were clearly not in place, the city government is at least negligent in its oversight of both law enforcement and the schools, and that's going to probably force the state government to initiate an investigation of public schools across the state. Now Texas public schools doing shifty things with other people's money is, unfortunately, nothing new, but this is the first time (that I'm aware of) that it directly resulted in the death of students.

Something that has really bothered me however, is an overlooked detail in the first few minutes that this event happened:
- The shooter crashes his car outside, and fires at some bystanders across the street. This happens approximately 12 minutes before police arrive at the school.
- The first 9-1-1 call goes out, the police arrive at the scene approximately 4 minutes after the call. The source of the call was inside the school.
- What the hell was everyone doing during the 7-8 minutes between the first shots and the 9-1-1 call from the school? How is it that those two bystanders get shot at, and neither of them, or anybody in the area who undoubtedly heard it thought to call the police? How incredibly broken and/or apathetic of a person do you have to be to have been anywhere near the area and not reacted in the single most sensible way for someone who is unable to shoot back?

So I'm going to throw in another layer of disgusting failure here: a society that is either too wrapped up in itself to notice the pretty distinctive sound of bullets breaking the sound barrier, or too cowardly to do the right thing in a situation in which even the most basic motion of calling the police should be a nearly involuntary impulse. If someone had made the call when those first shots were fired, then there's a good chance that the shooter would've been the only one dead that day, given the publicly released timeline. When people try to make excuses and claim that we don't have a broken society or a culture problem, well I think they're insane to not see it at this point. I would more or less expect this in an all but neglected inner city district, but a rural community almost small enough for "everyone to know each other?" God help us all.

[LeftHappy]

It's just a sad and crazy situation all around! It seems like government employees react and not act, might be lazyness too?

[BCA6010]

Government and laziness/inefficiency are pretty much synonymous terms, and it's inherently poorly suited for quick reactions when everything is bureaucratic and full of people with very specific jobs and everything else "isn't my problem." That also applies to large companies too, in my experience anyway. To add to the list of failures though, it sounds like both the gun store and the credit card company may have screwed up too, if the claim that he bought the guns using his grandmother's credit card is accurate. Dan Patrick is also now claiming that the city of Uvalde has falsified reports, which the mayor denies. It seems like literally nobody involved any step of the way did anything right.

[Guy13]

It sure seems that way…

[LeftHappy]

I know...

[Guy13]

I was talking to a guy and he was talking about metal detectors etc in schools like that was good. It seems like he wants to make it like the airport or prison. Think that is next?

[LeftHappy]

Probably...