MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why the Republican solution to arm teachers against mass shooters would never work after newly released surveillance video from inside Robb Elementary School shows dozens of highly trained, heavily armed officers too scared to confront the gunman with an AR-15 for 77 minutes.
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Don't forget, the gunman entered the school at 11:33. He had already shot at two people from the funeral home @ 11:29 before hoping the fence to the school. There had already been a 911 call about the truck being wrecked and a gunman shooting at those two people before the 911 call from the teacher. The cops didn't get there till 11:36. It shouldn't take a cop 7 minutes to get anywhere in Uvalde, being that it's only 7.6 sq miles in size.
you're a braver man than i, Lawrence.
Teaches with guns, and oh yes, Ted Cruz wants schools to have one door that has heavily armed guards outside.
I trust you, I’m a school teacher and without your honest and sensitive approach I don’t even know how I would navigate this
A world where children go to school, and leave in pieces in a body bag CANNOT be normalized in America.
I can't f'ing take it any more. It just hurts. It hurts so much. I pray the Uvalde families have the strength to go on. Oh, F the police. Really, F them up the A. They stood in the hallway checking their Insta while children were getting massacred? AND THEY STILL HAVE JOBS? F them and all of the "law enforcement" agencies that sat back while children were murdered.
The sound of children screaming as police are hearing them in the hallway sanitizing their hands
Yeah, they are afraid of AR-15 rifles. The police union pleaded with Gov Abbott to NOT allow more guns be sold to more people – NOT to allow more of these rifles to be bought by young men. They knew this would happen.
Abbott didn’t care. GOP don’t care.
These videos are impossible to watch. People opposing gun regulations should be forced to sit through all of them, unedited back to back. I watched just under a minute or so of the Buffalo shooting and seeing someone killing people like a real life FPS is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen, it's really haunting and an image I cannot unsee, I had to look away and I don't recommend anyone watches it because those images stay with you. These guns have no place in society – period.
You now it´s ugly when even a veteran reporter lost his cool.
It's simple, AR-15 shouldn't be sold!
This is how the police do it in the red states, against their own cult members, if they were in blue states, and this kid was black, he'd probably have 60 bullets through him already, funny that, good guys with guns eh.
US police only tough when they kneeling on unarmed black man’s neck and shooting unarmed black people in their own home or shooting fleeing black people.basically they are only tough when they are killing black people. They scared shitless when white boy hands on gun.
Republican Party is complicit in all the school murder’s at this point.
The point raised here is one of the most important things for people to realize about our horrific gun problem. The blood courage required of a law enforcement officer to face the horrific destructive power of this type of weapon is super- human. There are very few super-humans. I only wish all of our 2nd Amendment zealots could understand that simple point.
US police only tough when they kneeling on unarmed black man’s neck and shooting unarmed black people in their own home or shooting fleeing black people.basically they are only tough when they are killing black people. They scared shitless when white boy hands on gun.
And the AR-15 isn't even considered military grade because "mUh BulLeT rOtAtiOns"
Dear God!!!!!
Police are a group of people that we employ to sadistically give us fines and masochistically arrest and confine us but most of all they are here to oppress us o we don't have the inclination that we don't need them or we can police ourselves. They are not here to protect us or to help us. I think people confuse them with marines who are the ones that fight to protect us. Cops are who you call when there is an aftermath and the state needs an ongoing presence and the appearance of an oppressive force. This happening at this elementary school is not surprising in the least to see the cowardice of law enforcement. This should be a wake up to us. Police yourself and watch out for your neighbor protect each other and end the need for a whole demographic of people we employ to make life harder and less enjoyable.
Cops are gun nuts. They watch all the cool videos on new ammo. They fire those guns, see what they can do. OF COURSE they don't want to step in front of one, but they are even too cowardly to speak up for reasonable gun control.
PIGS ARE COWARDS!
Unfortunately the police have not been protecting and serving for decades…!!!
Send the screams to GOP obstructionist.
Police fear the AR-15… and yet they are legal to the public. Let’s look at who is really guilty here: the boy who legally bought an assault weapon with the intention of mass murder; and the lawmakers who enabled him, and others like him every week, for the gun lobby. There is no excuse for military-grade weapons to be made available to the public. It endangers the population, and it endangers the police, who are proven as expendable for political ideology.