Delayed Reaction

“Bursts of gunfire, reports a teacher had been shot, then a desperate call from a student trapped with the gunman could – and should – all have prompted a drive to stop the bloodshed far sooner, the Critical Incident Review released Thursday says. Instead, it took 77 minutes from when the 18-year-old shooter walked into Robb Elementary School until he was stopped. The carnage remains among the deadliest episodes in America’s ongoing scourge of campus shootings.” Uvalde school massacre could have been stopped sooner, DOJ report finds. There’s never been much doubt that the response (or lack thereof) compounded the tragedy in Uvalde. But the law enforcement response to automatic weapon powered school shootings isn’t America’s true scourge. It’s the automatic weapon powered school shootings.