@☁POPULATION-_-420🌿 In one post you want guns taken from individuals, in another post you say F12…..who is going to take the guns away? See how you are hypocritical? If there are no cops, who’s going to enforce gun laws? Ethical police? Haha! Guns solve problems, but sometimes sick people get them. Guess what they don’t tell you about Uvalde? There were teachers who had guns at home, who would’ve fought for there own life, but stupid laws would’ve made cops arrest them for defending themselves. Say no to gun free zones, and governmental regulation of firearms.
The cynic in me feels that they cared less because it was a predominantly Hispanic community and school. Like "no way am I dying for a Mexican" kind of sentiment.
It's not the country, it's a delusional minority who vote for lunatics and con artist in more rural areas of the country and now control the House of Representatives. Regardless of what they claim to believe, they don't care about kids, about equality, about fairness, about liberty. They're just selfish, judgmental and want everything their way, no matter who gets hurt. Basically, two year-olds in adult bodies.
I'm am American currently living abroad for personal reasons. And I can't explain to my Spanish neighbours how our children in the US are having to deal with stuff like this. Honestly? How messed up is this,?
"I'm afraid of his gun," said the 100 or so wanna-be tough guys in full tac-gear huddled behind the bullet proof shield as dozens of children huddle in terror with their teacher.
@janinewetzler5037 I agree, and a complete ban on these kinds of weapons is the only answer. Quite frankly, I don't understand why anyone should have a gun they have no good reason to own, but you Americans are all about fear. At least the right are.
Professionals? Lol so what was the gunman? How was he a "Professional "😂 😂 😂 what about the teacher who left the door unsecured, which by the way lead to the gunman entering the classroom and killing the children? What about the weapon that was accessible to a mentally ill teenager? What was the professionalism in citizens who promised to get involved, who spent countless hours holding hands in prayer, over lit candles and singing songs of kumbaya. What about their proffessionalism. Or what about the parents who had thousands of WARNING SIGNS, but chose to ignore them, the news media, providing information on our past mass shootings and the children that practiced ACTIVE shooter scenarios and drills. When you can provide an answer for everyone you can bash cops all you like, but until then, you can only support your community to be a part of the solution, rather than a part of the problem.
@@gordsruby5963 who said anything about the shooter being "professional"??? Most of your comment was utter nonsense, but you did hit ONE nail on the head "a mentally ill teenager". Until we start addressing that, no knee jerk reaction like Lawrence's will do one bit of good.
Yes if Americans fixed their gun laws a lot of children could be saved. More children in the States die from guns than from car accidents. That’s disgusting that nothing is done about it.
How many times do you have to learn this lesson America? You have a very large group of people that care more about the things killing kids, than the kids themselves.
@@Pasta_watcher nope. I do not. I see dead kids, and cops afraid of the weapon in the murders hands. And a large group of people that care are more about the weapons killing kids, than the dead kids themselves. You know what I'm saying?
@@Pasta_watcher well I am pro choice and want to see more restrictions on guns. 21 to buy, red flag laws, etc. and yes assault weapons should be outlawed
I cannot believe that there is a large percentage of the population and lawmakers that still support AR-15’s in civilian hands, without a license or background check and with conceal carry no less, all while knowing all of these facts. It’s infuriating.
Some folks get real hard about there guns. I had a conversation with a guy on the tubes that said he is a responsible gun owner who cleans and cares for his AR on a regular basis. Even taking it apart and putting it back together just for fun. I asked him why exactly he needed that gun, NO answer. I asked him if he realized that guns were not MODEL CARS, NO answer. Reason being he didn't have an answer. I'm starting to be convinced that folks like that just want these horrible weapons to feel like big men. It is infuriating, yes.
@@TheAginG420 he had an answer, he just didn't have to give you one. You like model cars, he likes guns. Gun are way more fun to assemble than model cars, but to each their own. Without people like him this country wouldn't exist.
After the Port Arthur shooting in Australia in 1996 our politicians had the courage to change things by removing most guns from Australian society and there hasn’t been any such type shootings since. Doesn’t that tell Americans removal of guns from society really works. Why hasn’t America got the courage to change?
@@JohnStamos-ub7tg You don't even understand that right. This so -called right is always parroted by the gun nuts as an excuse for keeping their guns, totally ignoring the devastation and deaths guns cause.
Because unlike Australias, there are already 25-50 million AR15’s and another 20-30 million AK47’s in circulation in the USA… the people literally have the power if we could stick together… a militia in Michigan just recently formed to protect their gun rights aka ready to die and go to war to protect their 2nd amendment… the way it should be… I’m in SC, so no such militia yet but we are recruiting
@@anitawindbigler7100 It’s ok, we all understand. Possibly English isn’t Darrell Williams first language. I think everyone gets what he is attempting to convey.
The idea of a good guy with a gun references citizens that carry firearms, not police. In fact, there was more than one teacher who said, she wished she was allowed to carry a gun for protection, but that would make her a felon….police failed where a father didn’t. That’s the definition of a good guy w gun working…..it did work. You just are dumb.
If the good guy won't use his gun then yes. The police also have guns, there were lots them there. Still they hid like babies while babies had to face death like adults.
it never f****** was. The NRA chairman where that infamous quote comes from, like all the inhuman pieces of s**t with him, glosses over facts like BALLS. Clearly the good guys of the Uvalde PD lacked BALLS and body armor as 300 of them, many with AR-15s themselves, cringed and cowered behind the door the whole time.
Republicans: "Protect the Children!!! Let's Ban Books and Drag Queen Shows!!!!" Also Republicans: "Thought and Prayers to the Students of AnyTown Elementary School, but NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT GUN CONTROL"
We all know that my friend. As we sit and watch these tragedies that happen every year, we can only blame and thank their brainwashed voter base for all of this bloodshed.
When they take the weapons from us the only people that will have weapons are the cops and criminals.We know the cops aren't going to do anything but the criminals will.
Pride and stupidity is only a small portion of the cause of all these deaths. Cowardice from the fully armed police officers in full protective gear is the main cause.
Read them all about the Ok Corral and Wyatt Earp. How Wyatt made Gun Laws a THING and killed any man that dared to defy a local Gun law. Ok Corral, u read them non readers about Earp
Cool that you are listening, but, simply because one works for a big corporation does not in any way make them a bad person or someone not to look up to. There are bad actors in every walk of life, just as there are bad corporations. Not everybody is out to deceive. Just my 2 1/2 cents.
It is especially sad because of why they won’t pass laws to limit the carnage. The reason why is because the NRA provides the money. Heaven forbid they dry up that well.
He did not have a driver's license !! What type of a ID was used!!?? The gun dealer sure got his money!! ALL of us know that there's something wrong with this PICTURE!!
It wasn't a weapon of war. It was a regular semi automatic rifle. Like any other. It was a small caliber rifle, actually. But news wants them banned and they will never quit.
Bc it's been downgraded and released to the public to purchase. The kid had a state issued ID - drivers license isn't the only form of ID. He bought it, all the ammo, and a vest. No questions asked. TX has no waiting period, no limits on the amount of ammo you can buy at one time. So yes, this 18yr old kid legally bought a weapon of war that is sold legally to the general public. This is why we need to ban these types of weapons and have better common sense gun laws that require waiting periods and ammo limits at a minimum.
@@thinkharder9332 I'm curious as to why other advanced (industrialised) countries have gun free zones pretty much everywhere and they don't need armed civilians to protect their children at school (or anywhere else, for that matter)
Don't ever forget that one child held off several departments worth of officers. The officers were cowering in fear. Several parents tried to rush in and were stopped/arrested by the officers. Even a bystander tried to help. Lack of any reasonable gun control is the problem. If armed and trained officers cannot do anything then what do you expect everyone else to due?
He didn't hold them off, they were told not to go in.....Gun free zones are the problem. If the teachers were armed this could have been stopped immediately. My state lets teachers and staff carry guns and we don't have this problem here.
@@TheChopf26 What? He definitely held them off. No question at all there. Why did they spend over an hour standing around outside the classroom? The border patrol finally stepped up and went in without permission because everyone else was too scared. And, he was confronted by armed officers who then ran away when he shot at them. Are you suggesting that teachers are better than cops?
@@waldowallace9102 he definitely didn't hold them off, they didn't try to go in. They spent an hour waiting to go in because thats what they were ordered to do and they followed orders like the sheep you want them to be.
Thats the problem ,,They allowed 19 children to die,when they should jave been inside that svhool immediatly and took that kid out. thats the problem here,bunch of cowardly incompetent cops who were too afraid let those kids die when they should have been in there. Thats what cops are suppossed to do protecting them at ALL COSTS!!
The GOP has got them good. When a white Republican experiences tragedy, like their child getting killed in school, or they find themselves dying of COVID because they didn't the shot, and they express their remorse to the world, the right-wing media will NEVER air what they say.
Good thing those cops weren’t in WWI, WWII, Vietnam or Korea…..we’d be speaking a different language if that was the attitude of those soldiers. Those soldiers were also terrified, but they did what needed to be done Terrified officers…gee, I wonder how terrified those little kids were watching their classmates exploding before their eyes, knowing they were next.
@@cathyshort "Its easy being an armchair hero isn't it?" - It's not easy for all of us, no. We understand the fear (if not from experience, then simply from imagination and empathy), but we would still confront that fear and risk our own lives in order to save the lives of children (and even other adults).
@nomore6167 I would like to think that I would too, but until you're in that situation, you don't know how you would react! Police officers are not soldiers and personally, I wouldn't want to live with the sort of memories they will have to, including the guilt of having done nothing!
@@cathyshort I was 20 years old and getting shot at and finding bombs in Iraq with far less experience and training than many of those officers. Even then I still knew how to breach and clear a room. They had all the tools they needed but failed to take action.
If we're talking about the chest-thumping representatives of the NRA, they certainly always show up not long after a mass shooting but never to prevent a mass shooting or attempt to confront a gunman with a machine gun. Though it seems that the NRA isn't so comfortable with anyone having a loaded gun at their rallies or conventions. I wonder why.
I’m glad you finally realized this! Now go pray and ask Jesus Christ for forgiveness and ask him to be your Lord and Savior! He has been waiting for you!!!
You know when our police are too fearful to act in their line of duty maybe, just maybe it’s time into outlaw that weapon. And if our government officials won’t do that maybe it’s time to replace our government officials. Just a thought people. And if your a person who thinks that’s not cool or that it’s your right to have a weapon of war so anyone can get it. Then you should be forced to walk through the crime scene anytime it happens. You should have to look at the human being wether child or adult and see not just the entrance hole but the exist hole. Not just once but any time it happens. If other countries can limit these incidents yet still have people owning guns it just shows how NOT great America is.
Sickos will always get their hands on weapons they're not supposed to have. It's time to start utilizing machines to confront the gunmen, time to use armored robots that cannot be stopped by any conventional means, machines that advance quickly with numerous offensive weapons, and when the gunman is ordered to surrender they will do so instantly because resistance is futile.
I got queasy right around 2:35.. the mental image is sickening. I not only thought of those poor 4th graders in Uvalde, but the even smaller kindergarteners in Sandy Hook. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😭😭
It literally makes me sick that so many Americans chose their right to own these weapons over the lives and health of children and teachers and those who love them (ditto the victims in other locations, of course.) Thank you, Lawrence, for all your reporting and charitable work helping children.
What makes me even sicker than that is that every time this happen, all we ever hear is "thoughts and prayers" and "now is not the time to talk about gun violence". It also makes me sick that the majority of U.S. citizens -- including gun owners -- support reasonable gun control/safety laws (background checks, red flag laws, etc), but Congress still won't pass those laws. It's clear that Congress members are not representing their constituents, but instead are representing their donors only (NRA and gun manufacturers).
You don't choose one over the other. This world isn't a utopia, bad things happen, we have to be prepared for those bad things and one good way to be prepared is to be armed. We own them to protect the life and health of our children.
@@nomore6167 the majority does not agree with you, and even if the majority did, this country is a Constitutional Republic where the majority doesn't get to take the rights from anyone.
@@TheChopf26 "and one good way to be prepared is to be armed" - All of those police officers WERE armed and they still refused to act. Ignoring reality does not alter reality.
He's not a pundit. That would imply he is an expert in a certain field and is giving us his opinion solely on that field. He's a reporter/ journalist. Just to help you out with definitions a bit is all..
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Totally agree with you mate. In Australia, we have just as many crazies as you do in USA. But, USA has 40,000 gun related deaths every year. Australia has virtually ZERO gun related deaths every year (much like the rest of the Countries in the World). In Australia, if we have an argument, we punch the crap out of each other, then go to the hospital and get a few stitches, then the next day, we're playing billiards together. In USA, you get into an argument, you pull out a gun and shoot them to death. WTF!!!
My brother is a Vietnam vet. He lives in another country now, but cannot believe, the very gun he was trained to use can be bought by anyone. He doesn't talk about his experience EVER.
I want to say a lot. As a 34 year old, mid western guy, Lawrence has proven himself to be one of the best and my most trusted “opinion” when it comes to current issues. Every segment he gives I find somehow matters to me even if I didn’t know it happened until he told me it did. I know I’m just one person, seriously thank you for the work you put into your reporting. It matters.
Gun violence recently surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children. By Robert Gebeloff, Danielle Ivory, Bill Marsh, Allison McCann and Albert Sun
My source published a peer reviewed study that concluded teen suicide rates have increased by 29% over the last ten years. I'm not sure what you're reading but it's not what I saw.
How can they be afraid of a gun they made legal? Knowing full well it is an arms for war? I will probably get kicked off this site ….AGAIN… for making this statement. It isn’t only Texans who are afraid of the crazies. The world is.
Few days after this massacre happened I read - one officer saw the gunman with the gun outside the school before he entered. I double checked this information just now to make sure it’s fact. The officer saw him and asked his supervisor if he should take a shot and no one responded therefore he didn’t. Meanwhile people are wrongly killed in simple traffic stops and they don’t ask permission. When it comes to children there’s no waiting and he should’ve shot him and I bet this officer has replayed this a thousand times. The fact they waited so long is unbelievable.
@@nomenclature9373 That’s NOT true. There’s even pics and video of that gunman going through the side door. It wasn’t a teacher and he was holding the weapon
A woman cop that was there was video taped saying, she would have gone in if it was her kids. They take an oath to protect and serve everyone kids, in every and any situation young and old.
As a small child, I was fascinated by guns and weapons. I played war with my friends, and cowboys and Indians (oddly the poor Indians never won). But unlike so many in America, I grew up.
All too many cops are not screened for physical cowardice; as a military veteran, I can say all too few have any such experience, which is why all too many kids who naturally reach for their cellphones when confronted by law enforcement wind up dead. And a lot of ill-trained and unprepared cops feel such guilt they commit suicide, as do many combat veterans. When we America take such life-and-death professions seriously?
BASICALLY,.,ALL THEY WERE WORRIED AB WAS THEMSELVES EVEN DUMM ENUFF 2 SAY IN PRESS RELEASE THAT AT LEAST THERE WERE NO OFFICERS INJURED, WHAT AB THE KIDS?..
but I thought the whole idea was "the only way to stop a bad man with a gun, is a good man with a gun"? Gee, 300 good guys vs. 1 bad guy = mission failed. Mr. Wayne La Pierre care to specify how good enough and how many are needed of the "good guys" to stop "1 bad guy with a gun"? It seems Uvalde's finest decked out with AR-15s were not enough. F****** monsters.
There is no reason "battle rifles" should be on the streets of America. There's no reason these instruments of war should be circulating in our society.
So senator Hall, if the murderer at Uvalde was brandishing a baseball bat, do you think the cops may have been able to take him out before all those children were murdered?
While their fear of such powerful weapons is rational, it's THEIR JOB. It's what they signed up for -- if they weren't equipped or trained to deal with it, then they need to be fired. They didn't do their jobs. They are afraid of the people who it is THEIR JOB to stop. And they didn't do their job. Yet they support the party that insists on putting MORE of those weapons in the hands of their own supporters. These police should be fired, their citizenships revoked, their pensions terminated, and exiled from the country. They were afraid to deal with the situation that THEY CREATED. They are therefore not americans, not citizens, but rather terrorists. Period. They made that clearly obvious when 373 of them stood around with their thumbs up their butts instead of doing their jobs to correct a situation they helped create. Those police are by definition expendable, because IT IS THE JOB THAT THEY WANTED. Those schoolchildren were not.
This upsets me so much. Why are they allowing these weapons to be in the wrong hands. They should only be issued to military personnel. Anyone who doesn’t want a ban on these weapons is disgusting and inhuman.
I would never expect my police to walk into live fire from an AR. All the Uvalde cops showed was common sense. The gun is the problem and we created it.
@@kingcormack8004 Except, even military and police personnel, former and current have confirmed that what was displayed by the Uvalde police was plain ineptitude and incompetence. After watching the leaked videos of the incident. Not only was the response incredibly slow, the lack of professionalism was also clear.
You can ban the AR-15, and it won't matter. The US Military now has a newer Rifle, that takes bigger bullets, designed to specifically defeat Body Armour. How long do you think it will take for that Gun to become the Mass Shooter's favourite Weapon?
Only NINE MINUTES after the killer entered the school, police had a ballistic shield and rifles, which is what they needed to safely stop him. What they didn’t have was a commander with courage, or other law enforcement able to overcome his effect despite children calling from inside saying the murderer was still killing. After he shot at the first three officers (one of whom had a rifle) within the first several minutes, no one seemed willing to engage. I can understand not going in before they had the shield, but it's unforgivable that they didn't afterwards, and concealed their failure. Their training was to immediately engage even if outnumbered and keep fighting until they stop the shooter, and specifically stated that those not willing to risk their lives should find other work.
If only the citizens of Uvalde knew before they hired them that these men were afraid of assault rifles. Perhaps they could’ve hired more courageous men and women who understood they may be called on to risk their life for school children.
The staff at Uvalde had a door propped open. You can’t fail to follow minimum security measures, give anyone off the streets access to a school, then lay all the blame on a gun. There’s no way to know for sure but if the doors at Uvalde had been properly shut and locked, it probably would’ve been a very different scenario. Of course, the cops’ response was a complete and utter failure as well.
As an Australian, I feel sorry for peace-loving Americans who have to live with this fear as part of their daily lives because their politicians are too spineless to actually do their job.
Every GOP response to banning assault weapons from civilian ownership: “Now isn’t the time to politicise this tragedy.” When is it time to ban assault weapons from civilian ownership, Republicans? When?
Ooffff, nobody scolds idiocy better than Lawrence. If the people responsible for allowing such carnage could feel shame, they wouldn't be able to get out of bed from the weight of the guilt they should be feeling.
In 1791, "Arms" was a musket & a pirate pistol. Those people just came from a place where "Killing the King's deer" was a death sentence. There was no refrigeration, or grocery stores, so if you wanted meat for dinner, you had to go shoot it.
If they were afraid of someone else with the exact Ar-15 that they all had, then they should have left their wives apply with the police department and they should have found jobs at hair salons!! Those children were depending and waiting for the brave policemen to save them!!!
After the Las Vegas shooting, there was bipartisan support to ban rifle bump stocks. That was only because casualty number 1 of 50 something was an off duty officer. Fast forward and attempts have been made to reinstate bump stocks which make rifles effectively full auto.
Of course it's the gun! If he was having a tantrum without a gun the response and outcome would have confirmed life. Instead he had a tantrum with an AR that did not confirm life.
Really tragic my condolences to the bereaved. But apart from laws. The fact that we mainly use bolt-action rifles in Germany actually has a cultural background. We regard semi-automatic weapons as unfair on the hunt and not as a challenge in sport.
No one has been able to explain why we as citizens are allowed to have this kind of firearm. If anything like that was to happen to them or loved ones then they'll sing a different tune. But I doubt it
They expected the kids to handle it for hours?
@☁POPULATION-_-420🌿 In one post you want guns taken from individuals, in another post you say F12…..who is going to take the guns away? See how you are hypocritical? If there are no cops, who’s going to enforce gun laws? Ethical police? Haha! Guns solve problems, but sometimes sick people get them. Guess what they don’t tell you about Uvalde? There were teachers who had guns at home, who would’ve fought for there own life, but stupid laws would’ve made cops arrest them for defending themselves. Say no to gun free zones, and governmental regulation of firearms.
The cynic in me feels that they cared less because it was a predominantly Hispanic community and school. Like "no way am I dying for a Mexican" kind of sentiment.
@@LA-qv1ir They're just as reluctant to risk their lives when it's white kids. But I understand your sentiment.
Sh*t, this almost made me cry. What is wrong with this country?!😥
Government got in bed with corporations.
Republicans
You know what's wrong
Greed.
It's not the country, it's a delusional minority who vote for lunatics and con artist in more rural areas of the country and now control the House of Representatives. Regardless of what they claim to believe, they don't care about kids, about equality, about fairness, about liberty. They're just selfish, judgmental and want everything their way, no matter who gets hurt. Basically, two year-olds in adult bodies.
I'm am American currently living abroad for personal reasons. And I can't explain to my Spanish neighbours how our children in the US are having to deal with stuff like this. Honestly? How messed up is this,?
"I'm afraid of his gun," said the 100 or so wanna-be tough guys in full tac-gear huddled behind the bullet proof shield as dozens of children huddle in terror with their teacher.
You do realise that their protective gear was useless against an AR-15
@@cathyshort so were unarmed children...
@janinewetzler5037 I agree, and a complete ban on these kinds of weapons is the only answer. Quite frankly, I don't understand why anyone should have a gun they have no good reason to own, but you Americans are all about fear. At least the right are.
While parents begged them to do something or get out of the way so the parents could. Disgusting! But that is Texas.
It’s so very sad
Gee. Imagine how the children and their parents felt? The police are supposed to be the professionals!
Professionals? Lol so what was the gunman? How was he a "Professional "😂 😂 😂 what about the teacher who left the door unsecured, which by the way lead to the gunman entering the classroom and killing the children? What about the weapon that was accessible to a mentally ill teenager? What was the professionalism in citizens who promised to get involved, who spent countless hours holding hands in prayer, over lit candles and singing songs of kumbaya. What about their proffessionalism. Or what about the parents who had thousands of WARNING SIGNS, but chose to ignore them, the news media, providing information on our past mass shootings and the children that practiced ACTIVE shooter scenarios and drills. When you can provide an answer for everyone you can bash cops all you like, but until then, you can only support your community to be a part of the solution, rather than a part of the problem.
@@gordsruby5963 You need to look up the definition of “professional” as your ramblings by overusing the word make no sense.
@@gordsruby5963 who said anything about the shooter being "professional"??? Most of your comment was utter nonsense, but you did hit ONE nail on the head "a mentally ill teenager". Until we start addressing that, no knee jerk reaction like Lawrence's will do one bit of good.
This was horrific, so many children could have been saved, R.I.P to those precious babies. 😢😢
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Coward Cops. They too had AR-15s. WTF?
Not good enough.
Cowards.
Yes if Americans fixed their gun laws a lot of children could be saved. More children in the States die from guns than from car accidents. That’s disgusting that nothing is done about it.
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Excellent report, Lawrence 👏👏👏
How many times do you have to learn this lesson America?
You have a very large group of people that care more about the things killing kids, than the kids themselves.
Yes you can see that from the comments.
@@Pasta_watcher no. what you said is utter nonsense.
@@Pasta_watcher nope. I do not. I see dead kids, and cops afraid of the weapon in the murders hands. And a large group of people that care are more about the weapons killing kids, than the dead kids themselves.
You know what I'm saying?
@@Pasta_watcher well I am pro choice and want to see more restrictions on guns. 21 to buy, red flag laws, etc. and yes assault weapons should be outlawed
@@rebeccaashton5390 any sensible person would agree with you.
I cannot believe that there is a large percentage of the population and lawmakers that still support AR-15’s in civilian hands, without a license or background check and with conceal carry no less, all while knowing all of these facts. It’s infuriating.
Some folks get real hard about there guns.
I had a conversation with a guy on the tubes that said he is a responsible gun owner who cleans and cares for his AR on a regular basis. Even taking it apart and putting it back together just for fun.
I asked him why exactly he needed that gun, NO answer. I asked him if he realized that guns were not MODEL CARS, NO answer. Reason being he didn't have an answer.
I'm starting to be convinced that folks like that just want these horrible weapons to feel like big men. It is infuriating, yes.
Police must give up theirs first. They've proven to be killers!
"conceal carry" a rifle? you do know its a rifle right?
@@TheAginG420 he had an answer, he just didn't have to give you one. You like model cars, he likes guns. Gun are way more fun to assemble than model cars, but to each their own. Without people like him this country wouldn't exist.
@@iamdone7094 I have a wonderful trench coat that does the job.
After the Port Arthur shooting in Australia in 1996 our politicians had the courage to change things by removing most guns from Australian society and there hasn’t been any such type shootings since. Doesn’t that tell Americans removal of guns from society really works.
Why hasn’t America got the courage to change?
@John T...
Americans are heavily into Me-ism,so unless something effects them personally,they Do Not Care.
No one cares about what you do there. Are you even allowed to leave your house without permission yet?
@@JohnStamos-ub7tg You don't even understand that right. This so -called right is always parroted by the gun nuts as an excuse for keeping their guns, totally ignoring the devastation and deaths guns cause.
Because unlike Australias, there are already 25-50 million AR15’s and another 20-30 million AK47’s in circulation in the USA… the people literally have the power if we could stick together… a militia in Michigan just recently formed to protect their gun rights aka ready to die and go to war to protect their 2nd amendment… the way it should be… I’m in SC, so no such militia yet but we are recruiting
That was there job to protect those children.
No it wasnt. Cops arent obligated to protect anyone. Thats by court ruling. They stand around and watch people drown, and bleed out, all the time.
Spelling? Yes it was (their) job.
No. Their job was to protect the private property of the rich of the community. That is what cops do. Protecting human life is not part of the brief.
@@anitawindbigler7100 get over yourself.
@@anitawindbigler7100 It’s ok, we all understand. Possibly English isn’t Darrell Williams first language. I think everyone gets what he is attempting to convey.
It’s almost like the “good guy with a gun” isn’t a reliable lifesaving measure
It never was. Its a myth straight out hollywood.
The idea of a good guy with a gun references citizens that carry firearms, not police. In fact, there was more than one teacher who said, she wished she was allowed to carry a gun for protection, but that would make her a felon….police failed where a father didn’t. That’s the definition of a good guy w gun working…..it did work. You just are dumb.
Especially if they are cowards with badges...
If the good guy won't use his gun then yes. The police also have guns, there were lots them there. Still they hid like babies while babies had to face death like adults.
it never f****** was. The NRA chairman where that infamous quote comes from, like all the inhuman pieces of s**t with him, glosses over facts like BALLS. Clearly the good guys of the Uvalde PD lacked BALLS and body armor as 300 of them, many with AR-15s themselves, cringed and cowered behind the door the whole time.
Lawrence, you’ve laid this out so well. No one has explained it as you have tonight.
Thank you.
He should've added Obama super majority as well. They could've done it then but choose not too. Cowards all of em.
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@@scabcrawler632 your handle says it all
Lawrence impresses me again and again. I’ve been disappointed by so many in the media but never Lawrence. I’m so grateful for him.
Republicans: "Protect the Children!!! Let's Ban Books and Drag Queen Shows!!!!"
Also Republicans: "Thought and Prayers to the Students of AnyTown Elementary School, but NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT GUN CONTROL"
Ummm you do realize you are talking to the people who have MarjorieTaylorGreene as a leader, who uses riffles in her campaign commercials right???
We all know that my friend. As we sit and watch these tragedies that happen every year, we can only blame and thank their brainwashed voter base for all of this bloodshed.
Insert school here. To right.
That's so WRONG! Why do they feel they have to bow to NRA? For a lousy 300K?
When they take the weapons from us the only people that will have weapons are the cops and criminals.We know the cops aren't going to do anything but the criminals will.
Heartbreaking what pride and stupidity has wrought.
time for wyatt earp type of laws Ok Corral // teach them GOPers about the real wild west. white man's history includes NO absolute gun rt
Pride and stupidity is only a small portion of the cause of all these deaths. Cowardice from the fully armed police officers in full protective gear is the main cause.
Republicans are focusing on getting rid of the books 📚 , not the guns or rifles.
Read them all about the Ok Corral and Wyatt Earp. How Wyatt made Gun Laws a THING and killed any man that dared to defy a local Gun law. Ok Corral, u read them non readers about Earp
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@@sircasm6578 Moron.
@@sircasm6578 thanks for warning everyone what you are and admitting you have a problem!! Get help asap !!!
Preach Lawrence.. I try not to idolize anyone, especially not employees of giant corporations, but this is as important as it is tragic..
Cool that you are listening, but, simply because one works for a big corporation does not in any way make them a bad person or someone not to look up to. There are bad actors in every walk of life, just as there are bad corporations. Not everybody is out to deceive. Just my 2 1/2 cents.
Lawrence is Historical
Lawrence thank you for your journalism man.
This is so difficult for me to revisit. I can’t even begin to imagine the grief of the families of the slain.
Wow so sad, heartbreaking and disgusting
It is especially sad because of why they won’t pass laws to limit the carnage. The reason why is because the NRA provides the money. Heaven forbid they dry up that well.
How in the world did that kid get a weapon of war? Weapons of war should be outlawed no exceptions.
How did he collect all those bullets???
He did not have a driver's license !! What type of a ID was used!!?? The gun dealer sure got his money!! ALL of us know that there's something wrong with this PICTURE!!
It wasn't a weapon of war. It was a regular semi automatic rifle. Like any other.
It was a small caliber rifle, actually.
But news wants them banned and they will never quit.
Bc it's been downgraded and released to the public to purchase.
The kid had a state issued ID - drivers license isn't the only form of ID.
He bought it, all the ammo, and a vest. No questions asked. TX has no waiting period, no limits on the amount of ammo you can buy at one time. So yes, this 18yr old kid legally bought a weapon of war that is sold legally to the general public.
This is why we need to ban these types of weapons and have better common sense gun laws that require waiting periods and ammo limits at a minimum.
@@patriciamantooth2638 according to Google, the shooter was 18 years old, the age (in TX) to get a D.L. Is only 16 years of age.
What if the "Good Guys with guns" are too scared to act ?
@@thinkharder9332 WOW, you totally missed the point.... LoL 😂
@@thinkharder9332 I'm curious as to why other advanced (industrialised) countries have gun free zones pretty much everywhere and they don't need armed civilians to protect their children at school (or anywhere else, for that matter)
Don't ever forget that one child held off several departments worth of officers. The officers were cowering in fear. Several parents tried to rush in and were stopped/arrested by the officers. Even a bystander tried to help.
Lack of any reasonable gun control is the problem. If armed and trained officers cannot do anything then what do you expect everyone else to due?
He didn't hold them off, they were told not to go in.....Gun free zones are the problem. If the teachers were armed this could have been stopped immediately. My state lets teachers and staff carry guns and we don't have this problem here.
@@TheChopf26 What? He definitely held them off. No question at all there. Why did they spend over an hour standing around outside the classroom? The border patrol finally stepped up and went in without permission because everyone else was too scared.
And, he was confronted by armed officers who then ran away when he shot at them. Are you suggesting that teachers are better than cops?
@@waldowallace9102 he definitely didn't hold them off, they didn't try to go in. They spent an hour waiting to go in because thats what they were ordered to do and they followed orders like the sheep you want them to be.
Thats the problem ,,They allowed 19 children to die,when they should jave been inside that svhool immediatly and took that kid out. thats the problem here,bunch of cowardly incompetent cops who were too afraid let those kids die when they should have been in there. Thats what cops are suppossed to do protecting them at ALL COSTS!!
@@TheChopf26 lol. Thank God you're not in charge!
And yet, they re-elected their Republican Governor. What a wasted opportunity.
The GOP has got them good. When a white Republican experiences tragedy, like their child getting killed in school, or they find themselves dying of COVID because they didn't the shot, and they express their remorse to the world, the right-wing media will NEVER air what they say.
As a Texan, I didn't vote for his bi*ch azz. I'm disgusted he's still there.
We tried our best to get Beto, but we don't have free and fair elections in Texas. Ken Paxton sees to that and has openly admitted it.
This is Texas, you know, the worst educated state in the Union.
The problem is more democrats need to vote to save the country and democracy. Too many can't be bothered.
Good thing those cops weren’t in WWI, WWII, Vietnam or Korea…..we’d be speaking a different language if that was the attitude of those soldiers. Those soldiers were also terrified, but they did what needed to be done
Terrified officers…gee, I wonder how terrified those little kids were watching their classmates exploding before their eyes, knowing they were next.
Yeah as a vet I’m watching him trying to justify the cops cowardice… the bullet being shot at me were a lot bigger.
Its easy being an armchair hero isn't it?
@@cathyshort "Its easy being an armchair hero isn't it?" - It's not easy for all of us, no. We understand the fear (if not from experience, then simply from imagination and empathy), but we would still confront that fear and risk our own lives in order to save the lives of children (and even other adults).
@nomore6167 I would like to think that I would too, but until you're in that situation, you don't know how you would react! Police officers are not soldiers and personally, I wouldn't want to live with the sort of memories they will have to, including the guilt of having done nothing!
@@cathyshort I was 20 years old and getting shot at and finding bombs in Iraq with far less experience and training than many of those officers. Even then I still knew how to breach and clear a room. They had all the tools they needed but failed to take action.
EXCELLENT commentary by Lawrence, as always!
All I heard was vomit and propaganda.
Police hiding from Gunman: Sure wish a good guy with a gun would show up!
If we're talking about the chest-thumping representatives of the NRA, they certainly always show up not long after a mass shooting but never to prevent a mass shooting or attempt to confront a gunman with a machine gun. Though it seems that the NRA isn't so comfortable with anyone having a loaded gun at their rallies or conventions. I wonder why.
This nation lost it's soul decades ago.
I’m glad you finally realized this! Now go pray and ask Jesus Christ for forgiveness and ask him to be your Lord and Savior! He has been waiting for you!!!
You know when our police are too fearful to act in their line of duty maybe, just maybe it’s time into outlaw that weapon.
And if our government officials won’t do that maybe it’s time to replace our government officials. Just a thought people.
And if your a person who thinks that’s not cool or that it’s your right to have a weapon of war so anyone can get it. Then you should be forced to walk through the crime scene anytime it happens. You should have to look at the human being wether child or adult and see not just the entrance hole but the exist hole. Not just once but any time it happens.
If other countries can limit these incidents yet still have people owning guns it just shows how NOT great America is.
Sickos will always get their hands on weapons they're not supposed to have. It's time to start utilizing machines to confront the gunmen, time to use armored robots that cannot be stopped by any conventional means, machines that advance quickly with numerous offensive weapons, and when the gunman is ordered to surrender they will do so instantly because resistance is futile.
Lmao 🤣.. keep dreaming pal. I might go buy another one tomorrow just because you inspired me so much. 💋
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you troll for money.
Yes. This .
@@sircasm6578Douchebag.
'Good guys with guns stop ... oh wait.'
Good civilians*
Cops are useless
Hey. Looks like it worked... Oh wait sorry I mixed up good guys and bad guys.
Actually that happens quite a bit, but your preferred news sources don't tell you about it.
Eh...well, can you really call cops that wont serve and protect, "good guys with guns"? "Cowards with guns" is the more appropriate phrase.
A nut with a gun killing babies again ….
I got queasy right around 2:35.. the mental image is sickening.
I not only thought of those poor 4th graders in Uvalde, but the even smaller kindergarteners in Sandy Hook.
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Their job is to protect. Not to hide and cower. Shame on those coward cops.
They can’t protect when they’re dead. The problem is the fuckkng gun. The police have no good options here. The problem is the assault rifle. Period.
time for Wyatt |Earp type of Gun Laws. Limited and restricted and None if a city wants to Limit the guns. / Wyatt Earp Ok Corral Time Mount Up .
@@johnbeechy you apparently missed the concept of why we have guns in the first place.
@@vitaminckillscovid103 and youve apparently been convinced by propaganda that didnt exist until the 90's.
@@vitaminckillscovid103 by your name you don't have a clear concept of anything, except maybe your moms hot pockets in her basement
It literally makes me sick that so many Americans chose their right to own these weapons over the lives and health of children and teachers and those who love them (ditto the victims in other locations, of course.)
Thank you, Lawrence, for all your reporting and charitable work helping children.
What makes me even sicker than that is that every time this happen, all we ever hear is "thoughts and prayers" and "now is not the time to talk about gun violence". It also makes me sick that the majority of U.S. citizens -- including gun owners -- support reasonable gun control/safety laws (background checks, red flag laws, etc), but Congress still won't pass those laws. It's clear that Congress members are not representing their constituents, but instead are representing their donors only (NRA and gun manufacturers).
You don't choose one over the other. This world isn't a utopia, bad things happen, we have to be prepared for those bad things and one good way to be prepared is to be armed. We own them to protect the life and health of our children.
@@nomore6167 the majority does not agree with you, and even if the majority did, this country is a Constitutional Republic where the majority doesn't get to take the rights from anyone.
@@TheChopf26 "and one good way to be prepared is to be armed" - All of those police officers WERE armed and they still refused to act. Ignoring reality does not alter reality.
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Lawrence is my favorite pundit. He always lays the information out in the most effective way.
Those poor kids…
He's not a pundit. That would imply he is an expert in a certain field and is giving us his opinion solely on that field. He's a reporter/ journalist.
Just to help you out with definitions a bit is all..
Lawrence is a full grown Beavis. A propagandist. Not a journalist or a reporter
All I heard was vomit and propaganda, not sure what your talking about 🥴🥴🥴
Very well stated Lawrence, and very profound.
And still full of vomit and propaganda.
This has to be one of Lawrence's best shows. 🙂
Meta-comment the evil google will censor with prior prejudice:
Have you noticed that UA-cam ads violate the premise of google ads?
Offensive and intrusive ads must be intended to "persuade" suckers to send money.
NO.
All I heard was vomit.
Totally agree with you mate. In Australia, we have just as many crazies as you do in USA. But, USA has 40,000 gun related deaths every year. Australia has virtually ZERO gun related deaths every year (much like the rest of the Countries in the World). In Australia, if we have an argument, we punch the crap out of each other, then go to the hospital and get a few stitches, then the next day, we're playing billiards together. In USA, you get into an argument, you pull out a gun and shoot them to death. WTF!!!
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” -Benjamin Franklin
My brother is a Vietnam vet. He lives in another country now, but cannot believe, the very gun he was trained to use can be bought by anyone.
He doesn't talk about his experience EVER.
Hope Supreme Court justices are watching this and feeling ashamed too.
Not until it’s one of their own
@@doricetimko5403 if my kid was killed, I still wouldn't support restrictions on the second amendment.
Apparently people forgot how this country was founded and would rather be slaves and have there babies killed for sacrifices. 😂😂😂😂😂🥴🥴🥴🥴
Yeah they want to ban tick tok but not this gun.
How about that????!
I want to say a lot. As a 34 year old, mid western guy, Lawrence has proven himself to be one of the best and my most trusted “opinion” when it comes to current issues. Every segment he gives I find somehow matters to me even if I didn’t know it happened until he told me it did. I know I’m just one person, seriously thank you for the work you put into your reporting. It matters.
Gun violence recently surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children.
By Robert Gebeloff, Danielle Ivory, Bill Marsh, Allison McCann and Albert Sun
That's actually true. Though mostly due to the increased suicide rates amongst teens. (Suicide is counted as "gun violence" in those statistics).
Fentanyl kills more people in the US than guns and car accidents combined. It's pouring in from the southern border. Do you care about that?
@@reason6835 cite your reference
New England Journal of Medicine.
My source published a peer reviewed study that concluded teen suicide rates have increased by 29% over the last ten years. I'm not sure what you're reading but it's not what I saw.
And yet, a mother got detained, then later jumped a fence and retrieved her 2 kids. Think about it
Elect her sheriff,shes a boss
They are the heroes, the brave mothers.
Thank you Lawrence, for your excellent report.
That was my first thought when this happened, they're not afraid of the gunman but the gun 😢
Another one with no brain, great.
How can they be afraid of a gun they made legal? Knowing full well it is an arms for war? I will probably get kicked off this site ….AGAIN… for making this statement. It isn’t only Texans who are afraid of the crazies. The world is.
Few days after this massacre happened I read - one officer saw the gunman with the gun outside the school before he entered. I double checked this information just now to make sure it’s fact. The officer saw him and asked his supervisor if he should take a shot and no one responded therefore he didn’t. Meanwhile people are wrongly killed in simple traffic stops and they don’t ask permission. When it comes to children there’s no waiting and he should’ve shot him and I bet this officer has replayed this a thousand times. The fact they waited so long is unbelievable.
As it turned out it was a PE teacher he nearly opened up on.
@@nomenclature9373 I wonder how you could mistaken a PE teacher with the shooter...
@@nomenclature9373 That’s NOT true. There’s even pics and video of that gunman going through the side door. It wasn’t a teacher and he was holding the weapon
God bless those children an their teachers! Don’t forgive those politicians!!!!
A woman cop that was there was video taped saying, she would have gone in if it was her kids. They take an oath to protect and serve everyone kids, in every and any situation young and old.
As a small child, I was fascinated by guns and weapons. I played war with my friends, and cowboys and Indians (oddly the poor Indians never won). But unlike so many in America, I grew up.
Watching Lawrence go through this was phenomenal. My anger returned by the second. I was literally pacing back and forth in my living room by the end.
Vicarious trauma
All too many cops are not screened for physical cowardice; as a military veteran, I can say all too few have any such experience, which is why all too many kids who naturally reach for their cellphones when confronted by law enforcement wind up dead. And a lot of ill-trained and unprepared cops feel such guilt they commit suicide, as do many combat veterans. When we America take such life-and-death professions seriously?
Thank heaven for this wonderful, intelligent man who brings us his unparalleled understanding of what is really happening in America. We owe him.
I hope this is a troll
The woman who ran into the school to save her kids displayed more courage than all those cops together. Protect and serve is literally their job.
The officers in Chicago only took 3 minutes to take down a shooter!
Uvalde should never have taken so long 🤬
Those cowardly cops should have given their sidearms to the parents that tried to go into the school instead of arresting them.
BASICALLY,.,ALL THEY WERE WORRIED AB WAS THEMSELVES EVEN DUMM ENUFF 2 SAY IN PRESS RELEASE THAT AT LEAST THERE WERE NO OFFICERS INJURED, WHAT AB THE KIDS?..
You expect too much from an insane situation. Those cops had common sense.
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@@kingcormack8004 cops are cowards. 400 of them proved it. Complete, impotent, worthless cowards.
@@kingcormack8004 common sense is to make sure all the cops are safe while children get slaughtered?
Mr. O’Donnell you are on 🔥 daily and I’m here for it EVERY night!! TY!!
They are cowards. You. Can not make heroes out of cowards.
Nope
but I thought the whole idea was "the only way to stop a bad man with a gun, is a good man with a gun"? Gee, 300 good guys vs. 1 bad guy = mission failed. Mr. Wayne La Pierre care to specify how good enough and how many are needed of the "good guys" to stop "1 bad guy with a gun"? It seems Uvalde's finest decked out with AR-15s were not enough. F****** monsters.
This must stop!
Stronger gun control must be enforced!
There is no reason "battle rifles" should be on the streets of America. There's no reason these instruments of war should be circulating in our society.
An AR 15 Is NOT a Battlw Rifle lol
So the official good guys with guns were too scared of one bad guy with a gun? And these guys are trained. Mhm.
So senator Hall, if the murderer at Uvalde was brandishing a baseball bat, do you think the cops may have been able to take him out before all those children were murdered?
While their fear of such powerful weapons is rational, it's THEIR JOB. It's what they signed up for -- if they weren't equipped or trained to deal with it, then they need to be fired.
They didn't do their jobs.
They are afraid of the people who it is THEIR JOB to stop.
And they didn't do their job.
Yet they support the party that insists on putting MORE of those weapons in the hands of their own supporters.
These police should be fired, their citizenships revoked, their pensions terminated, and exiled from the country. They were afraid to deal with the situation that THEY CREATED.
They are therefore not americans, not citizens, but rather terrorists. Period. They made that clearly obvious when 373 of them stood around with their thumbs up their butts instead of doing their jobs to correct a situation they helped create.
Those police are by definition expendable, because IT IS THE JOB THAT THEY WANTED.
Those schoolchildren were not.
That one pivotal moment in your life and you know you dropped the ball. Bet they were equipped to find drugs in the lockers though
And the police would not have been so afraid to protect those poor innocent people 😢
90 years ago we didn't have Fox "News"
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL POSSESSES THE INTELLIGENCE, GRAVITAS AND RIGHTFUL OUTRAGE TO PRESENT THIS MATTER APPROPRIATELY ! THANK YOU !
This upsets me so much. Why are they allowing these weapons to be in the wrong hands. They should only be issued to military personnel. Anyone who doesn’t want a ban on these weapons is disgusting and inhuman.
Well stated.
It is okay to be afraid of the AR-15, but it is not okay to make that an excuse to do nothing to stop a gun person with that AR-15.
I would never expect my police to walk into live fire from an AR. All the Uvalde cops showed was common sense. The gun is the problem and we created it.
They are cowards.
@@kingcormack8004 Except, even military and police personnel, former and current have confirmed that what was displayed by the Uvalde police was plain ineptitude and incompetence. After watching the leaked videos of the incident. Not only was the response incredibly slow, the lack of professionalism was also clear.
You can ban the AR-15, and it won't matter. The US Military now has a newer Rifle, that takes bigger bullets, designed to specifically defeat Body Armour. How long do you think it will take for that Gun to become the Mass Shooter's favourite Weapon?
If we can no longer protect our children then we are not a civilized country.
Too cowardly to ban this war weapon in the legislature and too cowardly to face up to the consequences as well.
In Uvalde, 1 AR15 stopped 376 agents.
1 teacher with a revolver would be better.
Isn't that so Mr. Cruz?
Only NINE MINUTES after the killer entered the school, police had a ballistic shield and rifles, which is what they needed to safely stop him. What they didn’t have was a commander with courage, or other law enforcement able to overcome his effect despite children calling from inside saying the murderer was still killing.
After he shot at the first three officers (one of whom had a rifle) within the first several minutes, no one seemed willing to engage.
I can understand not going in before they had the shield, but it's unforgivable that they didn't afterwards, and concealed their failure.
Their training was to immediately engage even if outnumbered and keep fighting until they stop the shooter, and specifically stated that those not willing to risk their lives should find other work.
If only the citizens of Uvalde knew before they hired them that these men were afraid of assault rifles. Perhaps they could’ve hired more courageous men and women who understood they may be called on to risk their life for school children.
Because that was the real problem here...
Cool victim blaming bro.
The staff at Uvalde had a door propped open. You can’t fail to follow minimum security measures, give anyone off the streets access to a school, then lay all the blame on a gun. There’s no way to know for sure but if the doors at Uvalde had been properly shut and locked, it probably would’ve been a very different scenario. Of course, the cops’ response was a complete and utter failure as well.
As an Australian, I feel sorry for peace-loving Americans who have to live with this fear as part of their daily lives because their politicians are too spineless to actually do their job.
Bob Hall is a perfect example of what you don't want in a senator
The only thing more cowardly than a Bad Guy With A Gun is a Texas Law Enforcement Official With A Gun.
Unfortunately, 'battle rifles' are legal to purchase anywhere in the US. GOP Republicans haven't done a thing!!!
They've taken campaign contributions from the NRA so that's technically doing something.
Yes! " it was the gun"! The monster is the gun!
how many guns does america need before the number of dead kids starts to go down?
Well, you tell me Barbara, if the kid was armed with a knife, do you think the cops would have been afraid to take him on?
@@marclagalle1486 no. They were afraid of the weapon. Weren't some officers parents of the slain children?
Not forgotten worldwide. 🕊why are Americans obsessed with guns.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is not to sell him a gun in the first place
Texas has a lot to answer for!
Every GOP response to banning assault weapons from civilian ownership: “Now isn’t the time to politicise this tragedy.”
When is it time to ban assault weapons from civilian ownership, Republicans? When?
Ooffff, nobody scolds idiocy better than Lawrence. If the people responsible for allowing such carnage could feel shame, they wouldn't be able to get out of bed from the weight of the guilt they should be feeling.
The cops would have charged in guns blazing....if only facing a baseball bat.
Wonderfully articulated. They need to think and care
BAN AR-15’s
I'm sure those police officers and state troopers that were in the school would have risked their life if it was their children in those class rooms
Probably not.
And nothing will change
If you can't ban the rifle then ban that destructive ammunition
In 1791, "Arms" was a musket & a pirate pistol.
Those people just came from a place where "Killing the King's deer" was a death sentence.
There was no refrigeration, or grocery stores, so if you wanted meat for dinner,
you had to go shoot it.
If they were afraid of someone else with the exact Ar-15 that they all had, then they should have left their wives apply with the police department and they should have found jobs at hair salons!! Those children were depending and waiting for the brave policemen to save them!!!
If they showed what the rifle does when it’s bullet hits a child the gun would be banned in 16 hours.
agreed
Nope - for some politicians in the pocket of the manufacturers, the NRA etc, there will always be an excuse.
After the Las Vegas shooting, there was bipartisan support to ban rifle bump stocks. That was only because casualty number 1 of 50 something was an off duty officer. Fast forward and attempts have been made to reinstate bump stocks which make rifles effectively full auto.
A great hunter does not need a semi automatic rifle to shoot deer.
2nd amendment isn't there for deer hunting.
no. nor is a semi auto preferable for
home defense
Of course it's the gun! If he was having a tantrum without a gun the response and outcome would have confirmed life. Instead he had a tantrum with an AR that did not confirm life.
Really tragic my condolences to the bereaved. But apart from laws.
The fact that we mainly use bolt-action rifles in Germany actually has a cultural background. We regard semi-automatic weapons as unfair on the hunt and not as a challenge in sport.
You said this when you were reporting on this right after it happened, that the cops were afraid of the AR-15. You were righter than right, Lawrence.
cops on scene should b charged just like a soilder deserting
No one has been able to explain why we as citizens are allowed to have this kind of firearm. If anything like that was to happen to them or loved ones then they'll sing a different tune. But I doubt it