Texas Tribune was just on NPR about Uvalde

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1. Ain't that America something to see?

Heavily armed, numerous cops are hesitant to confront a lone gunman because he has a military grade firearm that their body armor isn't good enough to defend against. But schoolchildren can face that down and get blown to pieces, such that when all the carnage is over at last, the authorities use their best judgment in deciding what body parts go with which child.

Meanwhile, county sheriffs and other police big-shots are 100% against any regulation of firearms because reasons. And there's nothing the citizens of our country can do about it, because we apparently have signed a murder-suicide pact with the firearms industry and its lobbyists.