Studies consistently show that crimes are committed due to a lack of deterrence. One such example was the shooting in Uvalde (TX). It turns out that the police arrived at the school three minutes after the shooting began. But they did not actually subdue the shooter until 78 minutes after the shooting began.
Sunday’s New York Times interviewed Arnulfo Reyes, the fourth grade teacher whose classroom was at the center of the shootings. He went through a living hell as the killer shot him twice when he first entered, then shot him 30 minutes later. Children were crying for help.
There were a lot of failures that day. Nobody knew where a key to the room was so the cops could get in. The side door which the killer got through didn’t latch.
As long as the people in charge see such killers as sympathy cases, or refuse to take reports of a mass shooting seriously, these killings will continue regardless of whether gun laws are lax or strict. The killer knew that the school and the cops didn’t take people like him seriously. He knew he could act with impunity. As a result, 19 students and 2 teachers lost their lives.
It’s a lot easier to point the finger at Democrats or Republicans and call them bad people than it is to do the hard work necessary to create a deterrent against such killers. But don’t ask Joe Biden to help. He’s too busy sticking it to the Russians.
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