WTF is Going On: School Shooter Edition

Update: The latest report says the teacher closed a door that was propped open. Teacher Closed Propped-Open Door Before Uvalde School Shooting: Police. The subheader from the story: "State police initially said a teacher had propped the door open shortly before the gunman entered the school"

Best case scenario this shooting was a total failure of government, from schools to police. It invalidates the gun control argument from the start, but also any argument for making schools safer. How is that possible when it looks like teachers and police, worst case, colluded to help the killer and best case their incompetence was akin to it?

DailyMail: Uvalde school district was part of AI program that rooted out potential mass killers and monitored social media for threats and potential shooters

Texas school officials had been monitoring students' social media prior to the deadly shooting in Uvalde Tuesday, it has been revealed - but still failed to pick up on concerning posts from the teenage gunman in the days leading up to the tragedy.

As an 18th birthday present to himself earlier this month, now-deceased suspect Salvador Ramos bought two AR-style rifles and paraded them on social media - including in ominous messages sent hours before the killing started.

The rifle used by the shooter starts at around $2,000 MSRP and he bought two of them. These are not cheap rifles that someone without much money would buy, though I suppose it is possible he spent his life savings on it if he planned to die. Otherwise, the high cost of the rifles make me suspicious of him acting alone.

CannCon: What Really Happened in Uvalde?

But before we start the timeline, we must first ask an extremely important question: How did an 18 year old man, with no known employment, whom was living with his grandmother because of an addict mother, afford:

-Two expensive firearms made by Daniel Defense ($2,000 each)

-an EOTech optic ($400-$700)

-1,657 rounds of .223 ammo ($800-1000 depending on how they were purchased)

-body armor ($500-1000)

-and over 60 magazines ($10-20 each)

for a total of approximately $6300 to $8,000? Most established adult Americans, especially after the last two years and the current economy, can’t afford a fraction of that. But this young 18 year old was able to do so with no known job and all on a debit (not credit!) card? In a border town reportedly overrun by the worst of the worst from the US Border…I’ll let you make your own assumptions.

This is the most damning part of the timeline of events. Important to know that this school, being on the border, is subject to repeated lockdowns because of border patrol events. Any time there is an active shooter or even a potential threat in the area, schools will lockdown. This school did the exact opposite, which either means they stopped following protocol (possible if lockdowns were a weekly event ands never amounted to anything) or something more nefarious at work:

1. Why did a *teacher* prop open a secure entry exactly one minute before the shooter arrived on scene?

2. Why did that teacher not close the door and ensure it was locked when they reportedly saw the accident, the shots fired, retrieved their phone, and called 911 to report it?

3. Col. McCraw said the teacher “apparently” called 911…has DPS confirmed the teacher called 911? Have they confirmed it was a teacher who propped open the door?

4. Why did the timeline shrink by seven minutes from yesterday to today when yesterday’s press conference was given based on video evidence as stated by Escalon in the presser? It was not as if Escalon responded to a question, off the cuff, with the times. It was part of his deliberate and detailed statement to the press. Are you telling me something as important as time, which he reiterates the time twice, was inaccurate on the video? Or did he just make up “11:40” when he was writing the press conference without bothering to confirm the time?

5. Where was the school’s police officer and why was he not on school property? Where was he that he was able to respond in under three minutes time but unable to find the wrecked truck and correlate the closest entry to the school to the wreck? How did he not hear the gun shots going off in his immediate vicinity when he, or other officers, were reportedly at the funeral home?

6. Why were seven officers not able to breach a room with two doors and windows to eliminate the suspect?

7. Why could they STILL not breach the room with 19 officers?

8. Why did it take a BORTAC unit and ballistic shields to breach the room?

9. Why was BORTAC even there? A federal law enforcement agency tasked with border protection is somehow on scene in a school shooting?

10. Why were US Marshalls out front of the school in adequate PPE (personal protective equipment) holding back parents and waving tasers at them, but not helping with the situation inside the school?

11. Col. McCraw reported that BORTAC used keys from the janitor to “breach” the room. Let’s be real: it’s simply called unlocking…breaching is defined as “to make a gap in by battering” according to Merriam Webster Save the “heroic” sounding words for the investigations. But I digress: If BORTAC was able to “breach” with the keys after an hour outside the room, would Ramos have been able to “breach” the classroom if the doors were locked? Were they locked and if not, why?

We now have testimony from law enforcement that a teacher propped open the entry door one minute before the accident, according to Col. McCraw. We have the teacher who propped open the door calling 911 but NEVER secured the door again. The suspects walks through said door at either 11:33 or 11:40, depending on which press conference you watched, and walks down a hall and into a room that may or may not have been locked. When it was locked by Ramos when he entered, it took BORTAC locating a set of keys to “breach”. Would it have taken Ramos the same set of keys to enter? Would it have delayed him enough that the three officers who reportedly entered moments after Ramos would have been able to then confront him in the hallway prior to entering the classroom?

When you pair all of this with the fact that an 18 year old dropout with no known job, an addict mother he left to live in a small home with his grandma, somehow scrapes up at least $6,000 to buy weapons and gear and then proceeds to shoot that grandmother that took him in...well, it’s bizarre.

The article also covers how he talked about buying guns on social media and his contacts asked him if he would shoot up a school:

Why is it that these major social media conglomerates will flag our posts, suspend us, ban us, label us “misinformation” in a moments time when we talk about COVID vaccines, the 2020 election, or Hunter’s laptop, but when an 18 year old mentions “being a school shooter”, crickets.

Many people become overly conspiratorial and thing this is all a coordinated attempt at eliminating the one thing keeping Americans free: the 2nd Amendment. It's the only amendment that still functions as intended so I can see that position being a natural outgrowth of anyone assuming there is a conspiracy against the American people. I lean more towards the fact that a subset of the gun-control movement, the gun-grabbing ghouls, spin up to full blast whenever there is a shooting, details be damned. Same thing anytime a white cop shoots a black suspect, there are the people out there screaming murder and white supremacy before a single detail emerges. The media amplifies this because it fits their narrative, giving it the appearance of some coordinated act, when it's exploitation by the usual suspects. 

Contrary to media coverage, the event is very strongly anti-gun control. One, the police are useless. Abusive policing is a problem and society abuses police. Being a cop is a no win job these days. A "hero type" isn't going to join the police force anymore. Instead, it's more paper pushers and box checkers. No surprise we keep seeing officers waiting outside while shootings take place.

Cops are no longer "peace officers" who "protect & serve", but "law enforcement officers" who are more likely to act like a traffic cop...including at a school shooting. If your plan is to dial 911 in a life and death situation, you could well die. If those parents trying to get in brandished firearms and dared the cops to shoot them, either they would have gotten in or the cops would have been shamed and gone in themselves. Nobody would have blamed the parents if they had to shoot the cops to get into the school either. The cops behaved as if they were working with the killer.

Second, if cops won't go into a school to stop a single shooter murdering innocent children, how many police are going to enter homes where they will be the target of the gunfire? BLM and other groups already talk about killing police and some nutters seems to be acting on their suggestions in some cities. Think cops with cushy jobs in low crime suburbs and rural areas are going to want to put their life at stake 24/7 to strip Americans of constitutional rights? No way, it isn't happening. There are already many sheriffs who have already said they won't comply with stricter federal gun laws. The gun control movement is dead as a door nail after this shooting. Maybe some cosmetic laws will pass, but that's it.

Third, American society is breaking down in every way you can think of, including the ruling class. Why are there such emotional explosions when these events occur, before any details come out? Government always use fear and terror to push bad laws, but why are they leaning so heavily upon emotion? It's become almost axiomatic that if you see an emotional story that seems to line up with the mainstream/ruling class narrative, wait about a week and you'll see it fall apart. Not always, but enough that people who pay attention assume government and media lie 100 percent of the time. 

My answer for why is they are losing power. The facts are so against them that hyper-emotional pleas are all they have left. As I've said, I think a logical reaction to the events in Uvalde, even if you don't care about gun ownership and the 2nd amendment, even if you are for more gun control, is to go out and buy a gun and get trained on using it because every single system that you would be forced to rely on with no alternative if you are unarmed, failed. And then after if failed, it stood by and did nothing, failing again. 

Who wants to give this system more power, more control over their life by disarming themselves? A person's status as a victim or survivor may come down to whether they can protect themselves and their family with firearms or whether they rely on public institutions. Institutions that produce teachers who prop open doors that let school shooters in while there's gunfire ripping outside and cops who stand outside while children are being shot. 

If anything, the shooting in Uvalde makes a good case for abolishing public education. Having large, centralized public schools is a magnet for shooters. Privatization would create far more smaller schools and they would have more power to arm teachers and use security measures.