• LurkyLoo@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    May want to read you own article before posting it…from the article at 11:35, a few minutes after the gunman entered the school…

    " Three Uvalde police officers rush to the same door that the gunman used to enter, which was closed. Surveillance footage shows the officers all have pistols, and two of them have rifles. One officer has external armor, and two are wearing concealable armor."

    They had armor, pistols and 2/3 had rifles.

    This is a tragedy any way you slice it. There is so much gun reform that needs to happen, and police did not handle things well here. People with guns are hard situations to handle, but police handled a bad situation on a way that made it worse.

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      6 months ago

      The officer who actually cornered the gunman, and put in the call for SWAT at 11:40 only had a pistol.

      Which is commendable: to go into a situation knowing you are outgunned. The people with pistols in that first group 100% should be commended for going in with inferior weaponry.