That’s the real lesson out of that Nashville school shooting!
Doesn’t Nashville TN make Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway look prehistoric with her slow-walking the use of police body cameras here in Madison WI?! (Answer: like a stegosaurus.)
Nashville Police responded to the mass shooting 03-27-23 at the religious school with alacrity and professionalism. Video from two officer-worn body cameras shows the officers stacking up so if one goes down, another can return fire.
A call to police came at 10:13. By 10:23, officers were inside the school. They shot the attacker at 10:25.
Waiting to confront the attacker was the mistake last year in Uvalde TX. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed. “Three minutes after the subject entered,” the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety later testified, “there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject.”
— ‘The cops who raced toward danger knew the lessons of Uvalde.’
More teenaged kids kill each other
“More kids died from guns in 2021 due to street violence, usually from gangs, than from all school shootings combined from Columbine to now.” So reports Erick Woods Erickson.
175 children have died since the massacre at Columbine, Colorado, a school shooting that happened during the assault weapons ban. In 2021, four hundred sixty five children died on the streets of just nine American cities. … More than 1400 people were shot in Philadelphia from January to August of 2022, but the District Attorney decided not to prosecute many gun possession crimes because that would mostly target young black men.
— ‘The inconvenient children killed by guns’
→Nikki Haley calls for a cop in every school
→ Denver schools are reinstating school police officers after eliminating them following the Floyd George murder, the Racine Journal Times reports.
Speaking of good police work: Credit the WI State Journal for reporting that the man arrested for fire bombing the pro-life headquarters last May donated money to Democratic candidates and left-leaning causes. Got him off a half-eaten sandwich! What fantastic detective work! a combination of high-tech and shoe leather. Should be an episode of cable TV’s Forensic Files (a program we highly recommend).
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Debate sexual dysphoria and AR-15 gun control all you want. The one indisputable takeaway is well trained police save lives.