On May 24th of this year, Salvador Ramos attacked Robb Elementary School in, Uvalde, Texas. Seemingly within moments after he opened fire police began arriving at the scene in droves. It is now estimated that before the ghastly affair was over law enforcement personnel from various agencies outnumbered young Mr. Ramos 376 to one.
Despite the odds the gunman held off this huge posse of Texas lawmen for well over an hour, as God only knows how many of his victims bled out in a classroom. When it was over 19 elementary school students, two of their teachers, and the shooter himself were dead. The authorities, all 376 of them, escaped harm.
So how did Salvador Ramos survive a massive barrage of gunfire during his reign of terror? Well, it turns out there wasn't a barrage of gunfire massive, or otherwise for over 70 minutes. It has now been revealed that a vast array of authorities stood frozen in a school hallway waiting for someone to take charge. Tragically no one wanted that particular job.
That's right, none of those big bellied good ol' boys wearing their starched white Stetsons and fancy badges--the law in these here parts pilgrim--wanted to take command. No one wanted to lead the charge and take the responsibility for it. In other words, one, or more Robb students might have died while the cops were too busy covering their own asses to save them.
Not all the police were paralyzed in that hallway, of course. There was a good number outside the school restraining the parents of those kids. Moms and Dads didn't give a shit who was in charge, they just wanted inside in order to protect their kids. It was an attitude the police couldn't seem to comprehend.
The fact is everything about the nightmare in Uvalde reeks of a cluster fuck. Two months before it happened some of Ramos' pals knew he was off the rails. So much so they had begun to refer to him, behind his back, as, "school shooter." Despite a long, sordid, trail of social media postings containing depictions of beheadings and violent sex he was still able to spend more than $5,000 on weapons, ammunition, and things like body armor. People who knew him understood perfectly he was obsessed with two things: violence and instant fame.
The Uvalde School District had six officers, supposedly under the command of Pete Arredondo while the city cops numbered 40, or so paid officers. Coming to aid them were Sheriff department deputies, Texas highway patrol troopers and even federal border and DEA agents. In theory Arredondo was in charge, but according to reports he was too busy looking for a key to the classroom door--which some are reporting was already unlocked--to give any meaningful orders to the troops.
While the chief looked for the master key and avoided any type of real leadership, Ramos continued to shoot.
Now all those hot shot Texas officials who initially praised the police response, including Texas governor, Greg Abbott are back peddling, ducking, dancing, and trying desperately to evade the terrible truth. That is their boys weren't heroes, they were at best incompetent fools and at worst, cowards.
And children who could have been saved died because of their inaction.
sic vita est
7-19-22
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