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So Where Did The Vest Money Go, Uvalde PD?

Last year’s Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas was horrific. The cold-blooded murder of 21 students and teachers was bad enough. But the “police” response that enabled the asshole to do it was, in some respects, even worse.

The shooter started firing at a location near the school. At least one officer was on-scene and saw the known shooter. He decided to radio in for permission to take down the soon-to-be-murderer.

That didn’t happen, so the chumbucket got into the “locked” school.

And spent over an hour inside killing people as students called 911 and begged the police to help them.

There were hundreds of law enforcement personnel on-scene. And while some entered the school building, they didn’t go into the classrooms where the killer was killing children. They retreated when they heard gunfire.

Bad enough. But at least one officer did want — and tried — to go in. Other officers physically restrained him, and reportedly he was threatened with actual arrest for attempting to save children. I suppose that would have made the rest of them look bad even worse; if that’s even possible.

In recent days, the Uvalde Police Department was been trying to excuse their failure. The real culprit, you see, was the perp’s evil “AR-15.”

Uvalde Cops with AR15s Blame AR15s For 21 Murders, Not Cowardice ~ VIDEO
“We weren’t equipped to make entry into that room without several casualties,” Uvalde Police Department Detective Louis reportedly said, adding, “Once we found out it was a rifle he was using, it was a different game plan we would have had to come up with. It wasn’t just going in guns blazing, the Old West style, and take him out.”

Correctly, that column ridicules the police cowardice. Other reports are more fawning and supportive of the poor under-equipped police facing that evil black “AR-15” that the US military issues to soldiers.*

“He has a battle rifle”: Police feared Uvalde gunman’s AR-15Even though some officers were armed with the same rifle, they opted to wait for the arrival of a Border Patrol SWAT team, with more protective body armor, stronger shields and more tactical training — even though the unit was based more than 60 miles away.

“You knew that it was definitely an AR,” Uvalde Police Department Sgt. Donald Page said in an interview with investigators after the school shooting. “There was no way of going in. … We had no choice but to wait and try to get something that had better coverage where we could actually stand up to him.”

The poor dears didn’t have body armor that could stop a .223/5.56 round from an “AR-15.”

Why not?

Oh, you might think that a smaller department like Uvalde might not have foreseen the need for something that could stop an intermediate-powered round, facing such so little. Who can predict the future with 100% accuracy?

The problem is

The Uvalde Police Department is pleased to announce that we have completed the process, and been awarded grant funds through the Office of the Governor to outfit EVERY Uvalde Police Officer with Level 4 body armor.

Almost four years before the Robb Elementary cluster-f###, the UPD was bragging about having the money in hand to equip every single officer in the department with Level IV body armor.

LEVEL IV IS DESIGNED TO HANDLE:
One hit from 7.62MM armor piercing rifle (APR) bullet with a velocity of 2880 ft./s.

If it’ll stop an armor-piercing .308/7.62, it should stop a .223/5.56 round.

Why weren’t they wearing those Level IV vests? Where were the vests? Were they ever actually… you know… purchased?

Where did the money go? The money they said, in 2018, that they had in their grubby, coward paws?

What did the Uvalde “police” think was more important than the lives of nineteen children and two teachers?

And what does the state of Texas think about state grant money being diverted… to whatever?


* A digression:

“The gunman had an AR-15, a rifle design used by U.S. soldiers in every conflict since Vietnam.”

In all my years of service, I was never issued an AR-15. I never saw an AR-15 used by the military. I was never issued any semi-auto rifle, only select-fire.

Does reporter police stenographer/apologist Zach Despart know the difference between the M-16/M-4 family, and the AR-15? Probably not, since he hasn’t even figured out that the Robb Elementary asshole did not have an AR-15. According to all credible reports, he used a Daniel Defense DDM4, not a Colt Manufacturing AR-15 (trademarks and manufacturing differences matter).

By the way, a “battle rifle” is chambered for a full-power rifle round, not an intermediate-power round like .223 Rem/5.56 NATO. Just sayin’.

 

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Let slip the dogs of panickmongering

Oh dear, another mass shooting involving an AR-pattern rifle.

First the report:

BREAKING: Multiple People Have Just Been Killed In A Gun Free Zone!!
A man wearing nothing but a coat stormed a Waffle House restaurant in Tennessee before dawn Sunday and shot four people to death, according to police, who credited a customer with saving lives by wresting a weapon away from the gunman.

An almost naked guy shoots up a breakfast shop in the middle of the night. I think it’s safe to suspect mental health issues.

But the details get interesting. Because you know this will — and probably has been by the time you read this Monday morning — be used to rally the victim disarming people controllers. Let me don my Carnac the Magnificent turban and make a few predictions.

  • The control freaks will cry for an “assault weapon” (when they aren’t calling it an assault rifle) ban.
    It wasn’t an assault weapon under Illinois or Tennessee law. Define, then ineffectively ban it.
  • Background checks!
    The weapon was legally purchased in Illinois. Which means the fish bait had a FOID (background check) and had another background check when he purchased it.
  • Waiting periods.
    He bought the rifle in 2011; seven years ago. How long a waiting period do thet want? (he asked rhetorically)
  • Military grade weapons in the hands of civilians!
    Too late, that already happened. Perhaps Congressslime Cooper will tell us what nation on the planet routinely issues semiautomatic firearms to its regular troops as its standard weapon.

As we’ve seen in recent psychopath-induced tragedies, sometimes law enforcement plays an unfortunate role. This one?

Chumbucket was known to both local Illinois law enforcement and the FBI. Looks like state and local LE in Tennessee had some encounters with him, too. It seems young Mr. Asshole was arrested in DC scaling the White House fence for an impromptu Presidential interview. At a guess, he was under indictment for federal trespass (prohibited person).

On the bright side, Illinois authorities cancelled his FOID and confiscated his guns (supporting the “under indictment” theory). On the down side, they gave the guns to his father whom they belive handed right back to our little prohibited (and now unlicensed) person. Oooh; unlawful transfer, and no background check.

So a troubled prohibited person, known to authorities in two states, and federal LE, unlawfully obtained firearms and did a bad thing.

Here’s another similarity to other shootings: The perpetrator wasn’t stopped by the police. Citizens stepped up. (To be clear: in Ocala, the SRO moved quickly towards the fire not knowing the shooter had surrendered. It simply took time for him to arrive, and he still had him in cuffs three minutes after the shot. He did right.)

In this case, the hero was James Shaw Jr., who had the testicular endowment and intestinal fortitude to tackle an armed shooter while himself unarmed. Before the cops could arrive.

Note that recurring theme: Before the cops could arrive. Even when they aren’t displaying Broward County-level cowardice, it takes the cops time to get there. It’s nice to have the capability to help yourself while waiting.


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