Overall, we were hurt by law enforcement. Because in Yuvarde, the children failed. We made the teachers fail. We have made our family fail.
After the shooting in Yuvarde, police had to assume that there were many injured and innocent children in those classrooms. Their duty was to access those classrooms, neutralize the threat and take their children out of the classroom at any cost. Their job was to take the victims of the shooting to the trauma center and try to save them.
In the mass shooting situation, unless you know the facts, you will never operate under the assumption that everyone is dead. You should assume that you have been injured and need to see a doctor. The only way for shooting victims to get help is for police to confront the threat and neutralize it.
By not entering, Uvalde police made an absolutely wrong call.
You can’t forget to do whatever it takes to get into those classrooms. If you can’t get in through one door, find another. If you cannot enter through the door, please enter through the window. And if you can’t get through the window, break through the drywall.
But even with a fairly good focus on police response, we also need to look at the failure of leadership by elected civil servants, the failure that created a situation that required police response in the first place.
How could a murderous, troubled kid step into a gun shop shortly after his 18th birthday to buy assault rifles and hundreds of large magazines? mosquito.
We need a comprehensive approach to dealing with the tragedy of mass shootings in our country. Had the law prohibited the archer from buying firearms until he was 21, he would never have broken the genocide he had done.
I think the real cowards are politicians who are afraid to endanger their political career in order to do the right thing. They can do as easy as supporting a universal background check or supporting a strong danger signal law across the country. Alternatively, you can help someone raise the age at which they can buy war weapons, such as those used in Yuvalde, from 18 to 21.
Instead, they were talking about having more police in the school. But if the 19 prominent “good guys with guns” in the school hall couldn’t get the job done to stop the heavily armed archers, apparently arming the police at the school is not the solution.
What we need is a comprehensive approach to dealing with the tragedy of everyday gun violence, not just mass shootings.
Our elected officials have a moral obligation to do something about the epidemic of gun violence, as well as authority. Still, they aren’t doing anything after the shootings. These politicians focus more on getting the next primary than on passing effective policies. They are afraid to lose their power and prioritize maintaining their power and their interests rather than actually saving their lives.
The epic failure of the Yuvalde police to meet the requirements to deal with the horrific event calls attention to another issue. At some point, the police model needs to be rethought.
It is wise to consider integrating police services rather than having a 18,000 decentralized police station with 18,000 separate command chains and a set of policies. By integrating police agencies working on a regional approach to law enforcement, efficiency, effectiveness, consistency will be significantly improved and budget savings will be realized.
Policing is more difficult than ever. US police are facing weapons that police officers do not encounter in most civilized Western countries. But in the end, their ability to work effectively depends on their proper training and supervision.
And the people are also responsible. Dealing with gun violence needs to be the only legislative issue that is of paramount importance to voters.
Americans need to make it a Litmus exam question when they go to polls. They need to be a politician’s foothold on the issue of solving our gun crisis. Because it ultimately concerns the common sense, good judgment and moral dignity of our elected officials, or their lack.
Until our society tackles these issues, we will have the tragic conversations that will emerge from Yuvarde over the years to come.
Source: www.cnn.com
