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Armed interested responsible civilians onsite to be better
than faraway cops response, cops prevented civilian response,
as always problem not guns but social issues, and gun free zones...


"It took between 40 minutes and 1 hour from when Ramos began opening
fire to when the CBP agent, backed by his tactical team, shot him."

One parent, Javier Cazares... raced to the school... only to find that
police weren't moving in... "Let’s just rush in because the cops
aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to"

"Go in there! Go in there!" women shouted at the police soon after the
attack began, according to neighbor Juan Carranza, who told the
Associated Press about the parents' efforts to get the police to
confront the shooter. Carranza said the officers did not go in.



Uvalde Shooter Fired Gun For 12 Minutes Outside School Before Entering

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/26/onlookers_urged_police_to_charge_into_texas_school_147659.html

The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at Robb
Elementary in Uvalde, Texas lingered outside for 12 minutes firing
shots at people in a funeral home across the street, before scaling a
fence onto school grounds where he fired more shots. He then entered
the school and barricading himself in a classroom before opening fire,
according to the Wall Street Journal.

    Victor Escalon, a regional director for the Texas Department of
Public Safety, said he couldn’t say why no one stopped the deceased
gunman, 18 year-old Salvador Ramos, from entering the school during
that time Tuesday. Most of the shots Ramos fired came during the first
several minutes when he entered the school, Mr. Escalon said.

    DPS officials previously said an armed school officer confronted
Ramos as he arrived at the school. Mr. Escalon said Thursday that
information was incorrect and no one encountered Ramos as he arrived
at the school. “There was not an officer readily available and armed,”
Mr. Escalon said. -WSJ

Ramos began Tuesday morning shooting his grandmother in the face, then
using her truck to drive to the school - crashing it into a ditch at
around 11:28 am according to a timeline laid out by Escalon.

Texas law enforcement officials ignored pleas from distraught parents
as a gunman was left alone for up to an hour at a Texas elementary
school - killing 19 children and two teachers, before a Border Patrol
agent charged into the school and killed the suspect.
A woman cries as she leaves the Uvalde Civic Center, where authorities
were reuniting children from Robb Elementary School with their parents
after the shooting. William Luther, Staff, San Antonio Express-News

"Go in there! Go in there!" women shouted at the police soon after the
attack began, according to neighbor Juan Carranza, who told the
Associated Press about the parents' efforts to get the police to
confront the shooter. Carranza said the officers did not go in.

    Minutes earlier, Carranza had watched as Salvador Ramos crashed
his truck into a ditch outside the school, grabbed his AR-15-style
semi-automatic rifle and shot at two people outside a nearby funeral
home who ran away uninjured.

    Officials say he “encountered” a school district security officer
outside the school, though there were conflicting reports from
authorities on whether the men exchanged gunfire. After running
inside, he fired on two arriving Uvalde police officers who were
outside the building, said Texas Department of Public Safety
spokesperson Travis Considine. The police officers were injured.
-RealClear Politics

One parent, Javier Cazares, whose fourth-grade daughter Jacklyn was
killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about
the shooting, only to find that police weren't moving in.
A family grieves outside of the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center
following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022
in Uvalde, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

"Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they
are supposed to," he said, adding "More could have been done."

"There were five or six of [us] fathers, hearing the gunshots, and
[police officers] were telling us to move back," he told the
Washington Post. "We didn’t care about us. We wanted to storm the
building. We were saying, ‘Let’s go’ because that is how worried we
were, and we wanted to get our babies out."

One clip shows officers tackling parents outside the school to prevent
them from rushing in. However, the precise timeline of the below
videos compared to what was happening inside the school remains
unclear...

    This video make so much more sense now. The cops literally stopped
parents from helping their kids. pic.twitter.com/zhQfUjlpjd
https://t.co/DqgZUH3uCC
    — Matt Novak (@paleofuture) May 26, 2022

That said, it now appears as if several cops may have entered the
school to save their own children while the shooting was unfolding and
the parents were being held back.

    It's not super explicit but this does sound like Texas DPS
spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez confirming that cops entered the school
to save their own children during the shooting while police were
holding back families and refusing to go in outside.
https://t.co/YNRZ1ObxwA
    — Evan Hill (@evanhill) May 26, 2022

After Ramos entered the school, he charged into one classroom and
began to open fire. According to Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the
Department of Public Safety, he "barricaded himself by locking the
door and just started shooting children and teachers that were inside
that classroom."

According to Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw, it
took between 40 minutes and 1 hour from when Ramos began opening fire
to when the CBP agent, backed by his tactical team, shot him.

    Not only did cops with long guns have their tasers out, ready to
stop parents from saving their own children, it looks like the cops
have one parent pinned to the ground.

    You can hear one person yell, "what the fuck are you doing to him?
Let him up!" pic.twitter.com/zW5V9FJ2r0
    — Matt Novak (@paleofuture) May 26, 2022

Two Uvalde police officers were among the first on the scene -
engaging the shooter after he had entered the building when they were
both shot and injured.

"When the cops came, the cop said: ‘Yell if you need help!’ And one of
the persons in my class said ‘help.’ The [shooter] overheard and he
came in and shot her," a boy who hid under a table in his classroom
told KENS5 news. "The cop barged into that classroom. The guy shot at
the cop. And the cops started shooting."

Of note, in the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado,
police waited outside the school and didn’t enter until almost two
hours after Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold started shooting—and an hour
after they’d committed suicide. In the meantime, they killed a dozen
students and a teacher.

Columbine shocked the nation and marked a shift in tactical
philosophy: Police officers are now expected to enter buildings with
active shooters as rapidly as possible, regardless of their equipment
or training.

As a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department briefing on the topic
explains, “Officers realize and accept the dangers, they also realize
if they do nothing, more people will die or be injured than if they
had taken action.”