Being “outgunned” does not appear to be the case. pic.twitter.com/EEvwlAdaeE
— Gun Facts (@gunfacts) March 22, 2023
Uvalde police who responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting told investigators they were scared of the shooter’s military-style rifle. Our police are outgunned.
“Our police are outgunned,” they worry. So naturally, law abiding citizens must once again surrender another chunk of their rights. So it goes.
In fact, as if reacting to an invisible clarion call from the ghost of FDR himself, Democrats and gun control zealots from Dianne Feinstein to Martina Navratilova rushed to social media to make their case that, as the Uvalde shooting clearly showed, a criminal with an AR-15 is such a menace to police — police in Uvalde having concluded that, as Zach Despart “reports” in the Texas Tribune, to take on such a killer would prove fruitless, so the best course of action was simply to clear the building and wait for him to stop slaughtering helpless children and teachers — that the obvious answer is to ban AR-15s, a semi-automatic rifle platform that, as Despart writes, is “less powerful than many rifles, such as those used to hunt deer or other large game [but] has significantly more power than handguns, firing a bullet that has nearly three times the energy of the larger round common in police pistols.” One of the officers involved described the shooter’s weapon as “a battle rifle.” …
As Despart tells us in his piece, an Investigative Committee on the Robb Elementary Shooting report, released in July of 2022 — while “comprehensive and scathing” — “made no mention of the comments by law enforcement officers in interviews that illustrated trepidation about the AR-15.” Despart, showing a generosity to the officers I’m not certain he might elsewhere, lets this seeming omission over officer trepidation at the prospect of having to face a “weapon of war” linger over his story like a braunschweiger fart: why weren’t we told by the Texas House investigative committee, chaired by Republican Rep Dustin Burrows, the implication is, that the real issue police had was with the shooter’s rifle?
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