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  1. It's been days since the shooting and the timeline of events described by the authorities still doesn't make sense.  They are saying that the killer or the cops (depending on the report) barricaded the killer into a room full of children that the killer spent around an hour murdering. 

    But then there's this report that the killer was apparently walking freely around the school when the cops entered???

      

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  2. 5 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    The cops can’t get their story straight. I’m starting to suspect that we’re eventually going to find out that the shooter hadn’t killed anyone in the classroom yet when they trapped him in there with his victims, and they stood by and watched while he murdered all of them.

    The police simply can't be relied on for this function.  Even the tactical unit they brought in from the border patrol couldn't get through an interior door that was blocked by a cinderblock.  A massive failure by every agency involved.

  3. 4 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    silicon valley this guy fucks GIF by Team Coco

    They just wanted to make it home safe to their families.

    Although I believe you are being facetious, I think to a degree this is fair.  Cops aren't soldiers who know they will be court martialed if they go cower in a fucking car in the face of the enemy.  These people were cowards but how would anyone have even known before they were placed in that situation and forced to react?

    But of course the larger truth is that they shouldn't be permitted or equipped to exercise a comparable degree of violence with the same lack of accountability as soldiers.

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  4. 14 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

    Still waiting on our resident right wingers/gun nuts to come and give some suggestions on what to do about this American pandemic. I can’t believe you bunch of pussy cowards love playing toy solider more than you love your kids. Y’all some fucked up people. Make sure you keep them in your thoughts and prayers! Bitch ass bitches.

    The mayor said they are building a mental hospital.  Not that the shooter was actually diagnosed with any kind of disorder or otherwise found to be a threat to himself or others.  Not to mention that none of these scumbags have enough spine to pass a red flag law in this state.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

    I don’t have a problem with people owning any gun. I just think it should be really, really hard to do. It should also come with the agreement that your ability to own can be removed at any time, down to one shotgun for home protection.

    Also, if your gun is used in a crime, you go down too.

    According to the state of Texas, this kid was years away from achieving the maturity and wisdom required to operate a can of Coors Light...but a civilized version of a military assault rifle though, that's cool.

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  6. Just now, RomaVicta said:

    It's founded in our violent mythology of the old West, the pitiful insecurity of white men, and the marriage of those two joined to create a new insane mythology and world view that justifies the hate engine and MAGA. 

    Abbott and his crew of Trumpist toadies appear en masse to explain that mass murder of children is wrong! Texans are united against it! We're all praying like hell for those poor families! We're all shamelessly dipping our bread in the hot gravy of grief and God, so don't you dare ask this united front of politicians any political or policy questions, asshole!

    Absolutely loathsome.

    I don't know how historical I would get with it.  Are hispanics in the valley with extended valley still living in Mexico playing out fantasies of violent settler colonialism?  That doesn't make much sense to me.  imo, it's nothing more than branding as part of forming an identity.  In these communities dems/libs are coded amongst men as as degenerate, lazy, and effeminate while repubs/conservatives are coded as humble, hard working, and masculine.  I think it probably goes back to the re-orientation of polarization in our politics around educational attainment.  

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  7. 5 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    His little girl was murdered by a boy with a gun yesterday.
     

     


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    It's a machismo thing.  You will find thousands of this same guy all over the valley.  imo, I bet this guy was a good father and is probably a nice enough person to know, but has never put much of any thought into politics and is more or less a product of his environment.  It's an identity.  

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  8. 3 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    this is the only thing this man has ever said in public office that isn't a lie.

    It burns my soul in a way politics can rarely do the degree that those guys (Abbott, Cornyn, and Cruz) openly don't give a fuck about this state and its citizens and yet receive no punishment for it.  Hopefully in the hereafter they will get what's coming.

  9. 48 minutes ago, used2b said:

    Uvalde Mayor. Huffines supporter.

    Here are the numbers from the last mayoral election:

    I can't really find anything about the election, but I believe this is Garza, a historic figure in Uvalde: https://voces.lib.utexas.edu/collections/stories/josué-george-garza  

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    McLaughlin opted to endorse former Republican state Sen. Don Huffines in the recent Texas primary for governor. He did not endorse Abbott, who he called a "fraud" on the website "The Texan."  

    He has also had issues with Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, telling Tucker Carlson: "I can’t get my own senators to call me back — as an elected official, I cannot get a callback.,”

    lol. https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2022/05/25/who-uvalde-mayor-don-mclaughlin/9929781002/

  10. 49 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    A high school student purchased semi-automatic rifles and a shitload of ammo. "No way we could have seen this coming."

    It would be interesting to see the trend in popularity of the AR-15 and other semi-automatic rifles having a high capacity.  Never been a big gun person but growing up in Texas have of course known many gun owners.  When I was a kid friends families would have rifles/shotguns for hunting and/or handguns for home defense.  Now practically every person I know who owns a gun owns at least one AR-15 or something like it.  

  11. 2 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

    This guy is definitely on something. 

     

    This shit is just so patently ridiculous.  Other rich western countries have rap music, video games, and don't have God in their classroom.  Based on these standards its everyone else who should be massacring each other weekly while the US is an island of peace and equanimity.  

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  12. 4 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Fortifying schools means large govt contracts for donors. Catering to the gun nuts is a locked-in election day vote.  The GOP has made their decisions and trying to shame them is pointless.

    What is needed is that Dem candidates just need to paint the GOP with the dead's blood. The tragic Uvalde deaths are owned by Abbott. Don't back down from that message. Don't blame access to guns or policies. Blame the politician to force some voters to understand what they're doing with their gop vote.

    Oh I agree the reason it's being deployed as a talking point is the money grab aspect of it.  Just another opportunity for these parasites to make their buddies a little richer.

    I guess it's just a little jarring how the meme's deployment in this instant is so incongruent with the facts.  Uvalde is an example of why the idea doesn't work.

  13. It seems like the response from conservatives has coalesced to a degree around the idea of "soft targets."  That the real solution is to eliminate soft targets by fortifying all of our schools.  However, in this instance there were three cops who had an opportunity to stop the shooter but were flat out too fucking scared to stop him.  Three cops vs one high school kid.  Do the "soft target" folks plan on deploying the US Army to all of our schools because our cops clearly aren't up to the task even after being given every toy they could possibly want for decades.

    Keep in mind that, as was the case with the Parkland shooting, we can't even discipline cops for behaving cowardly in these situations.

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  14. 2 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Yeah, Texas is chock full of ignorant, mean-spirited pussies who'll vote R regardless of, well, anything. 

    A big part of the problem is that the competing party is fucking worthless in this state.  Cuellar is one of the most prominent Dems in the entire state and the guy is an example of everything that is wrong with the party - corrupt, machine-style politician who is pro-gun, anti-choice, and the party nationally went to bat for him to hold off someone halfway decent from taking that crook's seat.  

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  15. 18 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:


    To point 3, my wife is from Brazil and she is still shocked, even after living here for 13 years, that schools do not have large fences/walls around them. It freaks her out actually. And yeah, when I lived there I thought it seemed a bit much, but now, not so much. Only two ways in and there is security at the gate. Might as well give it a shot since we love guns more than kids.

    I’ve seen more than a few people argue that current Brazil is a vision of America’s future. 

  16. 13 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    3 common threads to these incidents:

    1. Mentally ill person with a fuckton of warning signs.

    2. That mentally ill person having access to firearms.

    3. The armed mentally ill person being able to gain access to the school.

    American society needs to address all 3.  That dude shouldn’t have been able to post violent shit on social media without somebody following up with authorities.  That dude should not have been able to get ahold of guns or ammo.  That school should have been locked.

    The firearm industry should be treated with the heavy hand of both the automobile and cigarette industries.

    Do we know if this person was seeing a shrink or had been diagnosed with a mental disorder like bipolar, borderline, antisocial, etc.?

  17. 6 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    The sooner you realize that this is a broken country populated by a stupid, racist, and horrifyingly selfish people, the better off you'll be.

     

    The state elected a Democratic governor not all that long ago.  Those people were around back then.  I think things can change but for that to happen imo the Democratic Party in the state of Texas needs to be nuked and replaced with something new.  

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