Mongrel wrote:Brentai wrote:They're gonna do something this time.
The common assumption is that nothing will be done, but I think we're hurtling toward a particularly stupid outcome that I'd been fretting about for a while. The Uvalde and Buffalo shootings had a particular feature in common which was quite inconvenient to the "Good" Guys With Guns, and does not have protection from a bylaw that was written 200 years before its invention.
They're gonna ban body armor.
We're going to live in a country where it's legal for any psycho to own a deadly weapon, but it's illegal for you to protect yourself from it.
While this may or may not be true, one of the especially poisonous aspects of this shooting is that the killer crashed his car and was accosted by cops
BEFORE he even got into the school.
Then they let him get away because he was scary and might hurt them, and either refused to move or were ordered not to move until backup came.
They stood by and let him kill children.
The reason this wasn't
even worse thanks to cops being their usual hypocritical chickenshit garbage subhuman selves, is because a border patrol agent ignored the order to stay away and went and confronted the killer himself.
When I heard this, I was hit with a level of revulsion and ACAB I was unprepared for, and it took me a little while to process what I was thinking and feeling, and how best to articulate it. Here goes.
1. The fact that the responding officers intercepted the shooter, got into a firefight, and fled, allowing him to proceed to the school and murder people for a half hour until a border patrol agent heard gunfire and came on his own - the
whole department backed down out of fear and allowed 19 children to be murdered - is more damning of American policing than the murder of George Floyd, Daniel Shaver, or any unarmed person of any color could ever be. I mean that. Derek Chauvin may personally be more of a scoundrel than either of these two officers, but the entire reason we as a society tolerate the class of state-sanctioned protagonists that unacceptably-often produce a Derek Chauvin is that on occasion, something like this happens, it
will happen, and in the event that it does we will want to entrust someone with the Power of Life and Death to be there and respond. For such a person to
run completely undermines the entire analysis. If I'm to accept the ridiculous premise that the
only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun and so I must tolerate putative "good guys" with guns on every street corner, I
demand that they understand and agree with the "only" part of the cliche and not shirk the duty they have willingly taken upon themselves.
2. I would never wish someone to do themselves harm, but if this is not a situation where one has brought down a dishonor upon himself so great that it can only be cleansed through ritual suicide, no such situation exists.