After what happened in Uvalde, why on earth would anyone give up their weapons and trust to police to do anything?
If I thought it would help, I would apologize.”
— Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw, May 27, 2022
The May 24 massacre in Uvalde, Texas, outrages the conscience, though not for the facile and stupid reasons spewed by every prominent Democratic Party politician, half-witted newspaper columnist, and vapid television talking-head.
Liberals and other simpering dunderheads make fetishes of objects, focusing on the tool rather than the tool’s misuser. “Nobody needs an AR-15,” goes the refrain, when need has nothing and right has everything to do with it. “But the tool is so easy to misuse and abuse!” comes the ovine rebuttal, when we know as a matter of fact the tool is used in a small fraction of violent crimes.
Unfortunately, it so happens that some of those crimes focus the attention of the entire nation.
The real outrage is that the protectors—the “good guys with guns”—failed to protect. In fact, though they surely had the moral duty to save those 21 women and children, they did not have a legal or constitutional duty to do so, as the Supreme Court has said time and again. The police chose to hold back out of an abundance of caution—“officer safety” being the watchword. What’s worse, they prevented parents from entering the school at their own risk to rescue their own children.
All of it appeared to be by the book. If it wasn’t, we’ll know eventually.
I love how the Uvalde Police basically prove BLM correct…a broken clock is still correct at least twice a day…
duty to protect? what a freakin joke! They work for the government not you!
For those who are not aware, the right to ignore your safety by the police is, in part, based on a New York case where two police officers stood by and WATCHED a man get stabbed several times (including in the head) and DID NOTHING.
Well, actually, they DID do something, which was arrest the attacker AFTER the victim beat his ass and disarmed him.
They were sued for their lack of bravery.
The Supreme Court said, sorry, the police are under NO OBLIGATION to save you or protect you!! That would be THEIR choice and if they choose to watch you die, that is entirely legal.
BUT those same police want to make sure YOU get their “permission” to own a gun to protect yourself.
And, in states like Maryland, you’d have better luck trying to climb the Empire State Building with one arm.
I wonder what Madison, Franklin, Jefferson, etc., would have said about having to ASK someone (ESPECIALLY a GOVERNMENT AGENT!!) if it was okay with them if you used a right given to us under law.
Stand by and watch you die.
That’s what they call “protecting and serving”???
What they REALLY do is protect a revenue stream and serve the masters of our republic.
YOU are not in the equation. Only your wallet is…..
Keep cheering.