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Corrik7 posted...

It's funny watching everyone blame the Police on literally every single angle.

I think we can correctly attribute the deaths to the assault rifle wielding killer.

The door thing is interesting because the door being unable to be broken open I am going to guess is a protection against an active shooter gaining entry to the room in such a scenario, but worked in the opposite way this time since he was already inside the room. Either that or the door opens outward and it had the most bad ass barricade of all time.

It's not so much blaming the police for everything. It's that stories like these are swirling shitstorms that emphasize some of the worst aspects of our country. You have the gun control issue, where Greg Abbott just signed a bill a few months ago to make gun access easier (even cheekily tweeting about how Texas needs to step up their gun game to keep up with California), and is set to speak at an NRA conference tomorrow (unless that's changed, recently). You have the children issue, where Texas is more than happy to put women through hell to take away their ability to get an abortion, but when it comes to protecting ACTUAL children, they're for damn sure not gonna do anything. You have the "othering" angle, where every right wing voice is desperately searching for some sort of smear to paint the killer as a monster for reasons OTHER THAN HAVING AR-15S.

And now you have the police angle, where once again it feels like, when we actually NEED the police, they don't do their job. Unarmed black men? Better shoot to kill (or kneel to kill, which is the only reason Chauvin didn't get off scot free for "fearing for his life". Non-violent BLM protesters (not rioters, mind you...the peaceful protesters)? Pepper spray, fully body armor, aggressive military response. An armed gunman shooting up an elementary school? They fear for their lives and sit back while the slaughter continues. It has gotten frustrating, to say the least, because at a certain point, it does make you question why we spend so much on police budgets, yet when the chips are down and they're needed to put their lives on the line...it's not a priority.